- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Papermac; 2nd Revised edition edition (8 Mar 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333662156
- ISBN-13: 978-0333662151
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.4 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 962,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A quite brilliant piece of historical record-straightening...Everyone who wishes to have an opinion about Bosnia must read this book.' Niall Ferguson, Daily Mail 'Clear-sighted, authoritative and eloquent.' Dimitri Obolensky, Times Literary Supplement 'A Triumph of clarity, learning and balance.' Adrian Hastings, New Statesman and Society 'Excellent.' Paddy Ashdown, Sunday Times 'This is a splendid work of synthesis on a very complex subject, written with insight and sympathy: the best, indeed the only, informed book on a history that has become both topical and tragic.' Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph 'A marvellous book, a work of great scholarship.' Margaret Thatcher
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'Bosnia lies at the nodal point of the great historic civilisations and her history is difficult to write, because it needs several languages and a knowledge of very complicated events. In view of the Bosnian disaster today, it also needs an understanding of the world after the Cold War. To combine these qualifications in a book that is accessible is a formidable undertaking, defeating all but the best. Noel Malcolm is the best: here he has triumphed.' Professor N.Stone This revised edition has been updated with a new chapter covering the events of the last two years and remains the definitive work on the complex history of Bosnia.
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Format:Paperback
This book addresses a number of issues. It, of course, deals with the history of Bosnia and Hercegovina up to 1995, covering both the tragic conflict of the 1990s and the background to it. It does so in a way that leaves the reader certain of one thing above all: that nothing is a simple and clear cut as the propagandists on all sides would have one believe.
However, the book is also interesting in the way it touches on and illuminates other issues: the long struggle between the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, the schism between the Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity and the myth of the ethnic purity of nations.
However, the book is also interesting in the way it touches on and illuminates other issues: the long struggle between the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, the schism between the Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity and the myth of the ethnic purity of nations.
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Written with such authority, using well-balanced arguments to dispel myths. Entertainingly written with more than adequate detail for a short history.
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A superb book, lays to rest all the myths about the ' inevitability' of war after the break up of Yugoslavia and complicit role the west played in the terrible acts of genocide in Bosnia .... Writtent with clarity, fairness and scholarly enquiry
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BOSNIA: A Short History
This book is a an excellent, easy to read work giving an insight into Bosnia as everyone should know it.
The service was also great and book offered at an unbeliveable price.
The service was also great and book offered at an unbeliveable price.
Published on 6 April 2010 by Mr. Eldin Basic
A good general history about Bosnia but by no means perfect
Malcolm has fairly successfully managed to cover roughly 1,000 years or so of Bosnia's history. However, as with so many Balkan historians and journalists writing books during the... Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2004 by RM
Please read before visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina
I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who comes to visit Bosnia and Herzegovina, and especially to those non-Bosnians who come to work here. Read more
Published on 6 April 2001
An excellent book
I am a Bosnian; I was 15 years old when I was forced to leave my home in Bosnia together with my family, while my father and my grandfather were brutally executed. Read more
Published on 8 April 2000
Essential reading from Books on Bosnia
Covers the whole history of Bosnia, from the end of the Roman Empire to the Dayton Accords, in a single accessible volume; equally suited to the general reader or to the expert, it... Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2000
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