Bosnia - A Short History

Papermac, 1994. Spine faded and creased.

1992 and 1993 will be remembered as the years in which a European country was destroyed. It was a land with a political and cultural history unlike any other in Europe, where the great powers and religions had overlapped and combined: the empires of Rome, Charlemagne, the Ottomans and the Austro-Hungarians; the faiths of Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism and Islam. Sadly, this rich past has become shrounded in a fog of ignorance and misinformation. Celebrated on its first publication as a briliant work of history which set the terrible war in the Balkans in its full historical and political context. The definitive work on Bosnia by a Balkan specialist...