Burn
This House : The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia
by Jasminka Udovicki (Editor), James Ridgeway (Editor)
Beacons in the Night : With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in Wartime
Yugoslavia
by Franklin Lindsay, John Kenneth Galbraith
Listed under Balkans WWII
Black
Lamb and Grey Falcon : A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Twentieth-Century
Classics)
by Rebecca West
Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page
scale, Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork
written in elegant prose. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused
with any other book of history, politics, or culture--with, in fact, any
other book--is its unashamed depth of feeling: think The Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire crossed with Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. West visited
Yugoslavia for the first time in 1936. What she saw there affected her
so much that she had to return--partly, she writes, because it most resembled
"the country I have always seen between sleeping and waking," and partly
because "it was like picking up a strand of wool that would lead me out
of a labyrinth in which, to my surprise, I had found myself immured." Black
Lamb is the chronicle of her travels, but above all it is West following
that strand of wool: through countless historical digressions; through
winding narratives of battles, slavery, and assassinations; through Shakespeare
and Augustine and into the very heart of human frailty.
West wrote on the brink of World War II, when she was "already convinced
of the inevitability of the second Anglo-German war." The resulting book
is colored by that impending conflict, and by West's search for universals
amid the complex particulars of Balkan history. In the end, she saw the
region's doom--and our own--in a double infatuation with sacrifice, the
"black lamb and grey falcon" of her title. It's the story of Abraham and
Isaac without the last-minute reprieve: those who hate are all too ready
to martyr the innocent in order to procure their own advantage, and the
innocent themselves are all too eager to be martyred. To West, in 1941,
"the whole world is a vast Kossovo, an abominable blood-logged plain."
Unfortunately, little has happened since then to prove her wrong. --Mary
Park - Amazon.com
Paperback: 1181 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.12
x 7.77 x 5.06
Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper); Reprint edition (April
)
ISBN: 0140188479
Explaining
Yugoslavia
by John B. Allcock
A
Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples
by Fred Singleton
The
Contested Country: Yugoslav Unity and Communist Revolution, 1919-1953
by Aleksa Diljas
Yugoslavia
: Death of a Nation
by Laura Silber, Allan Little (Contributor)
Paperback - 384 pages Reprint edition
Penguin USA
(Paper); ISBN: 0140262636
To
Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia
The
Fall of Yugoslavia : The Third Balkan War
The
Serbs : History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
by Timothy Judah
My
Father, the Prince
by Milena Petrovic-Njegos Thompson
Book Description: This timely biography of Prince Milo of Montenegro
and the betrayal of his country imparts new meaning to today's Yugoslavian
headlines.
Written by Prince Milo's only child, Milena, My Father, the Prince paints
contrasts of elite Eastern European palatial life at the turn of the century
against the chaos, scheming and subterfuge surrounding World War I.
The prince, His Highness, Prince Milo of Montenegro of the Royal House
of Petrovic-Njegoš, meets the reader in Ireland at the age of 78. It is
here, in his reunion with his daughter after 39 years, that Milo relates
the events of his betrayal and that of his tiny kingdom, Montenegro, now
one of Yugoslavia's republics.
Rivalries, conspiracies, brutalities all have been a part of the Balkan
heritage. They still are, as current events attest. With its expose of
never-before published accounts of conspiracies against a tiny nation and
one man's fight to rectify the unbelievable tragedy, this book represents
a neglected chapter of European history.
Paperback: 204 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.56 x
8.56 x 5.54
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation; 1 edition (January 1,
)
ISBN: 0738839302
To
End a War
by Richard Holbrooke
Paperback from Modern Library
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The
Falcon & the Eagle: Montenegro & Austria-Hungary, 1908-1914
by John D. Treadway
Treadway's work is the first comprehensive study of Montenegro's relations
with her Great-Power neighbors on the eve of WWI.
The
National Question in Yugoslavia : Origins, History, Politics
by Ivo Banac
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr; Reprint edition (December 1989)
Tito
and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
As History : Twice There Was a Country
by John R. Lampe (Author)
Book Description: Yugoslavia as History is the first book to
examine the bloody demise of the former Yugoslavia in the full light of
its history. This new edition of John Lampe's accessible and authoritative
history devotes a full new chapter to the tragic ethnic wars that have
followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia, first in Croatia and Bosnia, and
most recently in Kosovo. John Lampe concentrates on the connection, real
and imagined, between these conflicts and the experience of the successor
states, the two Yugoslavias and their predecessors.
Paperback: 487 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.15 x
8.99 x 6.03
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd); 2nd edition (April
)
ISBN: 0521774012
Making
a Nation, Breaking a Nation : Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia
(Cultural Memory in the Present)
The
Impossible Country : A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia
Just
Enough Serbo-Croat : For Yugoslavia
Gender
Politics in the Western Balkans : Women and Society in Yugoslavia and the
Yugoslav Successor States (Post-Communist Cultural Studies)
Reversal of Fortune : Yugoslavia's Refugee Crisis since the Ethnic
Albanian Ruturn to Kosovo
by Bill Frelick
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Origins of a Catastrophe : Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers
by Warren Zimmermann
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America, Italy and the Birth of Yugoslavia, 1917-1919 (East European
Monographs : No. 2)
by Drapan R. Zivojinovic
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