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Safe Area Gorazde : The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
Author: Joe Sacco
ISBN-10: 1560973927
ISBN-13: 9781560973928
Published: 2000-09-01
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
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In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War, which had teetered on the brink of obliteration for three and a half years. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks and severe privation to hang on to their town while the rest of Eastern Bosnia was brutally 'cleansed' of its non-Serb population. But as much as "Safe Area Gorazde" is an account of a terrible siege, it presents a snapshot of people who were slowly letting themselves believe that a war was ending and that they had survived. Since it was first published in 2000, "Safe Area Gorazde" has been recognized as one of the absolute classics of graphic non-fiction. We are delighted to publish it in the UK for the first time, to stand beside Joe Sacco's other books on the Cape list - "Palestine", "The Fixer" and "Notes from a Defeatist".
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The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War
Author: Misha Glenny
ISBN-10: 014026101X
ISBN-13: 9780140261011
Published: 1996-10
Publisher: Penguin Group(CA)
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Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and looks ahead to an uneasy future in this turbulent region. Writing in the "Evening Standard", Fitzroy Maclean said 'Misha Glenny's deeply disturbing book is, to my mind, essential reading for anyone trying to understand, or even just follow, events in what was once Yugoslavia'.
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Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo
Author: Ger Duijzings
ISBN-10: 0231120982
ISBN-13: 9780231120982
Published: 2000-06-15
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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-- Jeffrey Stevenson Murer, Swarthmore College, International Politics
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Slovenia, 1945: Memories of Death and Survival after World War II
Author: John Corsellis
ISBN-10: 1850438404
ISBN-13: 9781850438403
Published: 2005-12-10
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
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In 1945 Slovenia, 6,000 civilians and 12,000 members of the anti-Communist Home Guard, the "domobranci", fearing punishment for their wartime resistance to their Partisan enemies, fled to southern Austria. But there, the British 8th Army loaded them into trucks, purportedly to take them to Italy, only to deliver them straight back to Tito's Partisans. The Partisans tortured and then executed them. The remaining civilians were spared due to the brave revolt of the British Red Cross and Quaker aid workers. John Corsellis witnessed and took part in these protests and in this book reconstructs the survivors' stories. These are vivid tales of wartime cruelty, of the revival of battered communities in refugee camps, and of emigration to Argentina, the U.S., Canada and Britain. In this unique volume, the authors call on more than half a century of research and an unsurpassed knowledge of the Slovene migrant communities around the world to tell their stories.
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Of Whom the World Was Not Worthy
Author: Marie Chapian
ISBN-10: 0871232502
ISBN-13: 9780871232502
Published: 1978-06
Publisher: Bethany House Pub
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"We must believe with all our hearts and souls that He is with us. He is a God of love!" So shouted Jakob, the evangelist, as the German tanks roared across Yugoslavian soil, and machine guns, motorcycles and Messerschmitts screamed in the hills.Out of the sky came the Stukas. They nosed over, dropped their bombs and veered off into the cold blue. The wagon in front of them was hit. The donkey was dead, and the driver lay mutilated in the brush at the side of the road."This is war," said the gray-clad officer. "The only place you will be safe is in the grave."Weak and divided, the Yugoslavians fought back. Their ill-equipped guerrillas chewed on the German army like vermin on the flanks of a stallion. They cut phone lines, laid mines, dynamited bridges and blew up armored cars. Their stubborn war cry was, "Better grave than slave!" But, for every German they killed a hundred Yugoslavs were shot in retaliation.In the midst of this living hell, Jakob, Jozeca and other believers clung to God and prayed for both friend and foe. The enemies of their beloved homeland could burn their cities and towns, but they could not destroy their souls or quench their indomitable spirits.Marie Chapian went to Yugoslavia and interviewed peasants, gypsies, factory workers, doctors, laborers, and officials of the Communist party. She wanted to know how the Christians' faith was sustained through those terrible years of war, famine and cold. She learned that they had simply clung to God with an almost incredible fait
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The Yugoslav Wars (1): Slovenia & Croatia 1991-95 (Elite) (Vol 1)
Author: Nigel Thomas
ISBN-10: 1841769630
ISBN-13: 9781841769639
Published: 2006-04-25
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
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Osprey's examination of Slovenia and Croatia's armies' involvement in the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1995). Following the death of the Yugoslavian strongman President Tito in 1980, the several semi-autonomous republics and provinces that he had welded into a nation in 1945 moved inexorably towards separation. After a deceptively clean break for independence by Slovenia in 1991, the world watched a series of other wars rip through this modern European state. In this first of two volumes, experts on the Balkan region give an unprecedentedly clear, concise explanation of the Slovene, Croatian and Krajina-Serb armies of these campaigns, illustrated with rare photos and an extraordinary range of colour uniform plates.
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Conversations with Zizek (Conversations)
Author: Slavoj Zizek
ISBN-10: 0745628974
ISBN-13: 9780745628974
Published: 2004-01-05
Publisher: Polity
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In this new book, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Žižek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics. An excellent introduction to one of the most engaging and controversial cultural theorists writing today. Žižek is a Slovenian sociologist who trained as a Lacanian and uses Lacan to analyse popular culture and politics. Illustrates the originality of Žižek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multi-culturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics. Provides a unique glimpse of Žižek’s humour and character and offers new material and fresh perspectives which will be of interest to followers of Žižek’s writings.
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The Death of Yugoslavia (BBC)
Author: Laura Silber
ISBN-10: 0140261680
ISBN-13: 9780140261684
Published: 1996-06-27
Publisher: Penguin; BBC Books,
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"The Death of Yugoslavia" is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia, considered from a historical rather than a political or sociological point of view.
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Pilgrim Among the Shadows/a Memoir (A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book)
Author: Boris Pahor
ISBN-10: 0151719586
ISBN-13: 9780151719587
Published: 1995-03
Publisher: Harvest Books
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Forty years after surviving his fourteen-month imprisonment in concentration camps, Boris Pahor, a Slovene from Trieste, visits a former camp in the Vosges mountains that has been preserved as a historical monument and suffers acute memories of the horror.
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A Tragedy Revealed: The Story of Italians from Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia, 1943-1956 (Toronto Italian Studies)
Author: Arrigo Petacco
ISBN-10: 0802039219
ISBN-13: 9780802039217
Published: 2005-04-04
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
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As the Second World War drew to a close, European borders were being redrawn. The regions of Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia, nominally Italian but at various times also belonging to Austria and Germany, fell under the rule of Yugoslavia and its dictator Marshal Tito. The ensuing removal and genocide of Italians from these regions had been little explored or even discussed until 1999, when the esteemed Italian journalist Arrigo Petacco wrote L'esodo: La tragedia negata degli italiani d'Istria, Dalmazia e Venezia Giulia. Now this story is available in English as A Tragedy Revealed.Petacco explains the history of the regions and how they were shifted between empires for centuries. The greater part of the story however details the genocidal program of the Yugoslav Communist government toward the native Italians in the regions. Based on previously unavailable archival documents and oral accounts from people who were there, Petacco reveals the events and exposes the Italian government's mishandling – and then official silence on – the situation. This is a riveting work on a little-known, tragic event written by one of Italy's most highly regarded journalists.
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