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Book SynopsisDiscusses the different ethnic and religious groups that inhabit Bosnia, and looks at the political and cultural upheaval that have been a continuing part of the region's history.
Trade Review"An acute, readable introduction to why and how racial history has been the bane of the Balkans and why it need not be." -Village Voice Literary Supplement "Quite simply one of the best books of historical scholarship written for a general audience in the last decade." -New York Newsday "By far the best available guide to the fatal steps to catastrophe ... Thoughtful, lucid, and deeply informed." -New York Review of Books "An extraordinary book--the best available in English on the background of the Bosnian war." -Warren Zimmermann,former U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia, in the National Interest "This book is essential for anyone to understand the present conflict ...a splendid work of synthesis on a very complex subject, written with insight and sympathy: the best, indeed the only informed book on a history that has become both topical and tragic." -Sunday Telegraph
