"A chilling testimony to the evil that executed?and the bungling that coud not pevent?an 'ethnic cleasing' massacre, the single worst atrocity in Europe since World War II."?The New York Times Book Re
Comprises 12 contributions investigating the roots of the current southern Slavic conflict as they were shaped and transformed during the communist period. The essays, written by scholars of history
"For four excruciating years, these overwhelmingly civilian victims of bloodthirsty armies have been degraded, dishonored, dislocated, and displaced. And the world has looked at this appalling mistrea
"The most authoritative account in English or any other language about how the war began."?The Washington Post Book World. "An essential resource for anyone of the conflict."?The New York Times Book
Out of the ravages of a nationalist war - and the subsequent patched-together peace accord - comes a hauntingly simple book. It is an exercise in sanity, an affirmation of life and community composed
This volume provides a survey of the thousands and thousands of people from the West who travelled to Constantinople between 962 and 1204, and of the influence Byzantium exerted on them and on those w
While earlier historians have seen the elaborate public rituals of the Burgundian dukes as stagnant forms held over from the chivalric world of the High Middle Ages, Peter Arnade argues that they were
Against the backdrop of ever-increasing nationalist violence during the last decade of the twentieth century, this book challenges standard analyses of nation formation by elaborating on the nation’s
This chronological narrative covers the Bronze Age to the end of the Roman Empire, with a useful epilogue that traces the Greek experience in medieval and modern times. Frost presents a level of detai
In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist camps inside the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, forty-one, defied the traditions of her small village and the ter
In this penetrating book--now with a new chapter covering events through 1995, including U.S. involvement--Misha Glenny offers a sobering eyewitness chronicle of the countdown to war, exploring the hu
This updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines t
Mark Whittow presents a clear, up-to-date reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Against a geopolitical background (superbly illustrated with fou
The guns have fallen silent in the former Yugoslavia. But the Dayton truce has yet to become a lasting peace. Peace in the Balkans remain threatened not only by the possibility of a new war in Bosnia,
In a shocking and deeply disturbing tour de force, David Rieff, reporting from the Bosnia war zone and from Western capitals and United Nations headquarters, indicts the West and the United Nations fo
The final volume of the author's trilogy details the history of the longest-lived Christian empire, from the battle of Manzikert in 1071 to the final days of the city of Constantinople and its fall in
"Men are fighters. Who would protect us? Everything else has to be taken care of for them. That is what women are for." So says Milena, one of ten women one hundred years old or more who in this oral
What do we mean when we speak of ancient Greeks? A person from the Archaic period? The war hero celebrated by Homer? Or the fourth century "political animal" described by Aristotle? In this book, lead
