I haven't read Robert D. Kaplan's
Balkan Ghosts (yet), but I have read and enjoyed his
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age, which was on sale a year-and-a-half ago. Now Balkan Ghosts is on sale for $2.99 at Kindle US, and I'm going to give it a try, although I'm not sure when I'll actually get to reading it. The TBR pile is high, but fingers crossed...
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IQNYUX6
Spoiler:
Quote:
A new edition of the classic travelogue exploring the Balkan Peninsula’s political, social, religious, and economic past.
From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as “the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date” (Boston Globe), Kaplan’s prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic.
This new edition of Balkan Ghosts includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between 1996 and 2000, beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo war, with the removal of Slobodan Milosevic from power.
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