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"This gripping account of the last great European war of the twentieth century comes from a journalist who witnessed the full extent of the Balkan conflagration and its aftermath. Tim Judah provides a detailed analysis of the origins of the Serb-Albanian conflict, the course of the war and civil atrocities, the involvement of the Western powers, the issues and the personalities, and the context for the future."--Jacket.

"In the 1990s Serbs brought death and destruction to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo, and international condemnation and economic ruin on themselves. Heavenly Serbia searches for the causes behind the brutal and futile drive for a Greater Serbia. How did the Serbs rationalize, and rally support for, their genocidal activity?" "Heavenly Serbia traces Serbia's expansionist impulses to Serbian national mythology. The dominant myth - that...

"Published in Germany in 1996, A Journey to the Rivers created a firestorm of controversy, being likened, by some, to revisionist writings mitigating Nazi guilt for World War II. But that is a grave misreading of the book, for Peter Handke proffers no justification or explanations for Serbian atrocities in the Balkan conflict. A Journey to the Rivers is, rather, both a scathing criticism of Western war reporting, which Peter Handke describes as lazy...

International reporter Asne Seierstad pens a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic--during the dramatic events leading up to his fall, and finally in the troubled years that have followed.

Featuring American journalist and NPR and PBS foreign correspondent, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, this classic program examines human rights in the Norgono region of the South Caucasus and in Serbia.

"Virtual War describes the latest phase in modern combat: war fought by remote control. Kosovo was such a virtual war, a war in which U.S. and NATO forces did the fighting, but only Kosovars and Serbs did the dying. As unrest continues in the Balkans, East Timor, and other places around the world, Ignatieff raises the troubling possibility that virtual wars, so much easier to fight, could become the way superpowers impose their will in the century...

In sixty-seven brief essays in English form, this book brings together opposing viewpoints from internationally and regionally renowned Western and Balkan authors. Contributers include Slobodan Milosevic, Henry Kissinger, Jürgen Habermas, Kofi Annan, Javier Solana, Václav Havel, and others, as well as many less familiar names to appearing for the first time in English.

Chronicles the American general's experiences overseeing the war in Kosovo and his attempts to mediate conflicts within Kosova as well as between representatives of NATO's governments, policy makers, the military, and the media.