History, myth, and the destruction of Yugoslavia.

With the outbreak of war in the former Yugoslavia in 1991, interest in Balkan history has increased and become emotionally charged. This balanced and engagingly

A definitive account of a fiercely independent Balkan people, whose fate was long shaped by the Great Powers.

At the time of Serbia's emergence from the ruins of Tito's Yugoslavia and of Milosevic's regime, Stevan Pavlowitch shuns the "doomed to violence" and the "doome