Before the Great War : changes in the officer corps. - Forging a wartime mentality: the impact of World War I. - Bridging two Hells: the 1920s and 1930s. - Invasion and occupation: Yugoslavia, 1941. - Islands in an insurgent sea: the 704th Infantry Division in Serbia. - Settling…
The state of Yugoslavia came into existence, in 1918, as a result of World War I and, in a series of wars starting in 1991, it was broken up into several new and smaller states. In the period before World War I a long series of bloody insurrections had already taken place before…
The author explains the violent break-up of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s in the context of two legal principles - sovereignty and the self-determination of peoples. She also offers an analysis of Kosovo's future status, international recognition of secession, implica…
This grand novel encompasses nearly all of Yugoslavia's tumultuous twentieth century, from the decline of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires through two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the breakup of the nation, and the terror of the shelling of Dubrovnik. Tack…