Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (Vintage Departures) - Softcover

Kaplan, Robert D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679749810 ISBN 13: 9780679749813

Verlag: Vintage Books, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

A history of the Balkan Peninsula explores the region's political, social, religious, and economic past in order to understand the nature of the recently rekindled, centuries-old blood feuds. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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Robert D. Kaplan is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and the bestselling author of eight previous books on foreign affairs and travel, including Balkan Ghosts, The Ends of the Earth, The Coming Anarchy, and Eastward to Tartary. He is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington. He lives with his wife and son in western Massachusetts.

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assination that set off World War I to the ethnic warfare sweeping Bosnia and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century--the place where terrorism and genocide were first practiced as tools of policy. This enthralling political travelogue helps us understand that region's anguish. 16 pages of photos.

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• Verlag: Vintage Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679749810
• ISBN 13: 9780679749813
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 16
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