Balkans


The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
The Tiger's Wife
Balkan Ghosts
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
The Balkans: A Short History
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Girl at War
Death and the Dervish
The Fall of Yugoslavia
Imagining the Balkans
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
Broken April
They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague
Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior by Mark GaleottiGod's Playground by Norman DaviesThe Other Prussia by Karin FriedrichPagans in the Early Modern Baltic by Francis YoungThe Hussite Wars 1419–36 by Stephen Turnbull
Early Modern Eastern Europe
24 books — 6 voters
Girl at War by Sara NovićThe Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven GallowayAs Long As Sarajevo Exists by Kemal KurspahićZlata's Diary by Zlata FilipovićSarajevo by Zlatko Dizdarević
Books on the Bosnian War of the 1990s
77 books — 58 voters

Imagining the Balkans by Maria N. TodorovaBeing Muslim the Bosnian Way by Tone BringaMacedonia in ancient times by Antonije Škokljev-DončoBlack Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca WestGuerrilla Radio by Matthew Collin
Ex-Yu Countries: Nation and History
24 books — 4 voters
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndrićThe Trigger by Tim ButcherBlack Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca WestBalkan Ghosts by Robert D. KaplanPeople of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Balkans
278 books — 209 voters


Fitzroy Maclean
Seen from the angle of someone about to plunge headlong into it, the turbulent stream of Balkan history had a new fascination. The details were as confusing as ever, but certain basic characteristics, certain constantly recurring themes, seemed to run right through the bewildering succession of war and rebellion, heroism, treachery and intrigue. In these might lie the key to much that was now happening.
Fitzroy MacLean, Eastern Approaches

Ivo Andrić
Finché l’uomo vive nel suo ambiente e in condizioni normali, gli elementi del curriculum vitae rappresentano per lui periodi importanti e svolte significative della sua vita. Ma appena il caso o il lavoro o le malattie lo separano dagli altri e lo isolano, questi elementi di colpo cominciano a scolorirsi, si inaridiscono e si decompongono con incredibile rapidità, come una maschera di cartone o di lacca senza vita, usata una volta sola. Sotto questa maschera comincia a intravedersi un’altra vita ...more
Ivo Andrić, Travnička Kronika

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