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Fascinating ... the best guide to Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power, the emergence of a Greater W Serbian ideology, and the country's step-by-step descent into war." —Michael Ignatieff, The Hew York Review of Books •: .♦ iff • ♦• •. * ‘ -y TjBprV~ry.. '-mv|K■ •» * • *-» I ■ %.- m'-'i'■■■■!KU M9MM Vi'tk% -i Jij [yfiYj mt i t b*: K*’ n* 8^yj| *«*flr«. .. *■; ■;* ■ 11 . #Mil IRB BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Copley Square V 4 Praise for Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation “The most authoritative account that has been written. . . . The authors convince you that this has been a war orchestrated by men who meant to stay in power by any means available.” —The Guardian “The standard reference work on the internal development of the crisis since 1986. Silber and Little’s dissection of the conspiracy concocted by the leaderships of Slovenia and Serbia to throttle the Yugoslav Federation is a masterpiece of contemporary political writing.” —Misha Glenny, London Review of Books “The closest any book has come to telling us what happened. It reads like a novel with heroes, victims, and—mostly—villains. If you’re limited to one book about the Balkans, it had better be this one.” —Warren Zimmerman, U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1989-1992 “This is a book that anyone attentive to war and conscience should keep close at hand. Laura Silber and Allan Little have written a history book that is painful to read because so many of its lessons were witnessed and ignored by most of us. This is an explicit and haunting book about the disintegration of a nation.” —Peter Jennings, ABC News “During the whole course of the slaughter in the former Yugoslavia, too many well-intentioned people in the West turned away. They relied on two excuses mainly: that the conflict was an eruption of ethnic hatred, and that the situation was too complicated. It is per¬ haps the greatest virtue of Yugoslavia that it debunks both myths— authoritatively, definitively. After reading it, no honest person will ever be able to take refuge in these myths again.” -—David Rieff, journalist and author of Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West “The authors let the evidence . . . speak for itself . . . particularly powerful for anyone still labouring under the delusion that the peo¬ ple of Yugoslavia simply started to kill each other on a whim. ... If you want to know why they are wrong, this is now the only book you need to read on the subject.” —Robert Wright, The Scotsman Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/yugoslaviadeathoOOsilb PENGUIN BOOKS YUGOSLAVIA: DEATH OF A NATION Laura Silber is the Balkans Correspondent for the Financial Times and has been based in the region for nine years. Widely acknowledged among journal¬ ists, diplomats and scholars as one of the English- speaking world’s leading interpreters of the causes and progress of the Yugoslav wars, her knowledge of the politics of the former Yugoslavia is unequalled among foreign journalists. She was chief consultant for an acclaimed six-part documentary series. Allan Little has been a correspondent with BBC ra¬ dio and television news since 1988 and has covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia since the fighting erupted in the summer of 1991. He has reported from most theatres of conflict in Croatia and Bosnia- Herzegovina and has won widespread praise for his compassionate accounts of the war, and those caught up in it. His consistently perceptive report¬ ing has laid bare the dynamics both of the war itself and of the failure of international efforts to end it. 4 Yugoslavia D eath of a Nation Laura Silber and Allan Little BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Copley Square PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books USA Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England First published in the United States of America by TV Books, Inc. 1996 First revised edition published in Great Britain as The Death of Yugoslavia by Penguin Books/BBC Books 1996 This revised and updated edition published in Penguin Books 1997 13579 10 8642 Copyright © Laura Silber and Allan Little, 1995, 1996, 1997 All rights reserved Maps by Aleksandar Ciric This book is published to accompany the television series broadcast on the Discovery Channel. The series was produced by Brian Lapping Associates Ltd. Associate Producer Michael Simkin Series Producer Norma Percy Producer/Director Angus Macqueen and Paul Mitchell LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Silber, Laura. Yugoslavia: death of a nation/Laura Silber and Allan Little.—[Rev. ed.] p. cm. “Published to accompany the television series entitled The Death of Yugoslavia which was first broadcast in autumn 1995”—CIP verso t.p. Includes index. ISBN 0 14 02.6263 6 1. Yugoslav War, 1991- 2. Yugoslavia—History—1980-1992. I. Silber, Laura. Yugoslavia, death of a nation. II. Little, Allan. III. Title. DR1313.S55 1997 949.702'4—dc20 96-36086 Printed in the United States of America Set in Caslon 540 Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or other¬ wise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or coveuother than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
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