A portrait of the people of Yugoslavia.

Offers an account of the war in former Yugoslavia and contains material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and looks ahead to an uneasy future in this region.

Presents the author's adventures in Soviet Central Asia, in the Western Desert, where he specialized in hair-raising commando-style raids behind enemy lines, and with Tito's partisans during the last months of the German occupation of Yugoslavia.

Zlata Filipovic was given a diary shortly before her tenth birthday and began to write in it regularly. But the distant murmur of war draws closer to her Sarajevo home. Her father starts to wear military uniform and her friends begin to leave the city. The pathos and power of Zlata's diary comes from watching the destruction of a childhood.

This history of the Serbs opens with the medieval kings of Serbia and a battle lost six centuries ago that still profoundly influences the Serbs. It then describes the idea of Serbdom and examines the tenuous ethnic balance fashioned by Tito and its drastic unravelling after his death.

A work of history which sets the war in Balkans in its historical and political context. It covers the events of 1993-1995.

This work explores the divisions that still exist in contemporary Europe. It focuses on Eastern Europe and the attitudes and cultural identity of Eastern Europeans, a nation of people still living in the past. Budapest, Tirane, Warsaw and Zagreb are featured.

This volume provides an accessible, involving and moving account of the Balkan war criminals.

In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks to hang on to their town. This book presents a snapshot of these people.

An account of how Kosovo became the crucible of one of the 20th-century's most poisonous ethnic conflicts. It analyzes the origins of the conflict, the course of the battle, the issues and personalities, and future options. This edition updates the story to, and beyond, the fall of Milosevic.

Presents a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia.

For 78 days in 1999, US and NATO forces launched round-the-clock aerial attacks against Yugoslavia, killing upwards of 3000 people in the name of humanitarianism. This book challenges mainstream media coverage of the war and uncovers hidden agendas behind Western talk and a decade-long disinformation campaign waged by western leaders.

The objective of this book is to examine the atrocities in Yugoslavia and the possibilities for Western policy in confronting the collapse of governmental authority in the region.

In the 1980s, under economic deterioration and the pressure of Serbia's ambitious political establishment, Yugoslavia broke up along ethnic fault lines. This volume recounts socialist Yugoslavia's troubles and the challenges facing its successor states from May 1980 to December 2000.

Snipers in the hills overlook the shattered streets of Sarajevo. Knowing that the next bullet could strike at any moment, the ordinary men and women below strive to go about their daily lives as best they can. Kenan faces the agonizing dilemma of crossing the city to get water for his family.

Yugoslavia managed to survive from its inception in 1918 until the early 1990s, but ethnic and regional conflicts have irrevocably fragmented the country. This updated edition explores the original concept of the Yugoslav idea , evaluates its history and looks to the future.