num_pages: 752
description: This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives readers the essential historical background to recent events in this war-torn area. No other book covers the entire region, or offers such profound insights into the roots of Balkan violence, or explains so vividly the origins of modern Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. Misha Glenny presents a lucid and fair-minded account of each national group in the Balkans and its struggle for statehood. The narrative is studded with sharply observed portraits of kings, guerrillas, bandits, generals, and politicians. Glenny also explores the often-catastrophic relationship between the Balkans and the Great Powers, raising some disturbing questions about Western intervention.
language: English
title: The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
titlecomplete: The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
characters: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Enver Hoxha, Zog, King of Albania, Karađorđe Petrović, Franz Ferdinand
genres: Politics, Historical, Romania, European History, World History, Military Fiction, War, Nonfiction, History, 19th Century
ratings_count: 1916
places: Yugoslavia, Balkans
publisher: Penguin