The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of YugoslaviaWh are the Serbs? Branded by some as Europe's new Nazis, they are seen by others - and by themselves - as the innocent victims of nationalist aggression and of an implacably hostile world media. In this book, Tim Judah, who covered the war years in former Yugoslavia for The Times and The Economist argues that neither version is true. |
Contents
DEATH DOES NOT EXIST | 1 |
AN EMPIRE ON EARTH | 17 |
IT IS BETTER TO DIE IN BATTLE THAN TO LIVE IN SHAME | 29 |
RESURRECTION AND BEYOND | 48 |
CUTTING THE TURKS INTO PIECES | 73 |
WE CHOSE THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM | 113 |
Decline and Fall Into the Whirlwind Croatia Kaputt | 135 |
WE ARE THE STRONGEST | 191 |
Which Side Will You Be On? On the Highway to Hell | 204 |
THE MADMEN TAKE OVER THE ASYLUM | 225 |
THE WAR FOR MORE | 242 |
16 | 295 |
END OF EMPIRE | 312 |
REVOLUTION AND BEYOND | 338 |
National Structure of Yugoslavia 1918 | 364 |
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