books about: balkans     books:       The Balkan Trilogy (The Great Fortune / The Spoilt City / Friends and Heroes)7 reviews Olivia Manning Penguin (Non-Classics), 1988 A Treasure I was very disappointed to see that this collection is out of print. I have read the trilogy several times and always found something new to admire. Ms. Manning is very adept at illuminating the communications and mis-communications of marriage and politics. These novels balance emotional life and political effect very well and they work on many levels. I hope it is back in print soon so I can ...             Balkan Breakthrough: The Battle of Dobro Pole 1918 (Twentieth-Century Battles)1 review Richard C. Hall Indiana University Press, 2010 The Macedonian Front from the Bulgarian viewpoint The story of a little-known battle of a little known front of World War I. The Macedonian front doesn't get a lot of ink in English speaking countries (or elsewhere, I'd wager) but this is a readable and thorough account of that front's final battle, written from the point of view of the main Central Power's protagonist there: the Bulgarians. A worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in WWI, ...             Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy (New York Review Books Classics)5 reviews Olivia Manning NYRB Classics, 2010 not really NEW, but well worth reading I read this book back when Kenneth Branagh was still married to Emma Thompson. The two of them made a mini-series version of this for Masterpiece Theater that was wonderful, and I hunted down the book back then. It was wonderful also, an engrossing story of the WWII in the Balkans. ALso the story of a couple of British newlyweds far from home. I recommend it AND the video Fortunes of War. ...             Spies of the Balkans: A Novel58 reviews Alan Furst Random House, 2010 A Perspective of The Brutal Military and Social History of The Balkans Alan Furst is known for a particularly fine accent on his insights into the human development of his characters. In this book, Constantine, aka Costa, Zannis, a Greek Police Officer, plays a pivotal role in the anti-Nazi underground. He is one of those policemen you want in your corner in times of need and desperation. He is an upright fellow of 40, good looking and rugged. His efforts to provide ...             S.: A Novel about the Balkans17 reviews Slavenka Drakulic Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001 A reality worth staring down Slavenka Drakulic' is Croatian, thus neither Serbian nor Bosnian as are those of whom she writes here; she is apparently sufficiently detached yet culturally close enough to make likely her understanding of her subjects. She is a journalist who has supplied important articles to international newspapers as well as an author. Drakulic' interviewed numerous rape victims of the Balkan wars and ...             Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History123 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Picador, 2005 Excellent and broad sweeping introduction to the Balkans Robert Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts is more than a travel book for most of his experiences in the Balkan's were far from tourism. Rather, like Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, his book explores time and place with the precision of an anthropologist. Kaplan points out that this area of the world seems to have a talent for starting wars and once was called `ethnic trash' by Karl Marx. ...             Western Balkans (Multi Country Guide)4 reviews Marika Mcadam, Jayne D'Arcy, ... Lonely Planet, 2009 Macedonia in the new 2009 Western Balkans Guide The new 2009 Western Balkans Lonely Planet guide book chapter on Macedonia is a very much needed piece that contributes to our understanding of the Republic of Macedonia. While the book covers 7 countries in the region, what might be the most interesting and exciting revelation for many travelers is the special attention given to Macedonia, still little visited by tourists. Not only does it ...             The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-199940 reviews Misha Glenny Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001 Awesome book, should be used as a textbook in school trough Balkan states As I come from Macedonia,one of the most troublesome Balkan states, I definitively think that this awesome book should be use as a basic textbook in schools trough most of the Balkan states, because it is so precise, full of informations and history accounts. I was astonished of this work of Mr. Glennys', especially from the precise details of the history accounts, some of which are purposely (or ...             Spies of the Balkans[Random House](Hardcover)58 reviews Alan Furst Random House, 2010 A Perspective of The Brutal Military and Social History of The Balkans Alan Furst is known for a particularly fine accent on his insights into the human development of his characters. In this book, Constantine, aka Costa, Zannis, a Greek Police Officer, plays a pivotal role in the anti-Nazi underground. He is one of those policemen you want in your corner in times of need and desperation. He is an upright fellow of 40, good looking and rugged. His efforts to provide ...             The Balkans: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)28 reviews Mark Mazower Modern Library, 2002 History made comprehensible This book packs a lot into a little. It is dense and the reader has to be committed to the topic. But for making sense of that fractious part of the world, it is must reading. The closing chapter on violence is particularly noteworthy. If you read it first, you will get an excellent idea of how balanced and careful this historian is.             Balkan Cookbook, The Vladimir Mirodan Pelican Publishing, 1989 How would one begin to prepare such Balkan delights as chorba, cashcaval, borsh, ghiveci, and papanashi? Vladimir Mirodan, a native Romanian, introduces the reader to a world of cooking primarily unknown to the West. The cuisine of Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia is derived from a culture that evolved along the Danube River--at a crossroads where French, Russian, and Eastern influences meet. It is a tantalizingly unique cuisine, as the ...             Balkans - Europe South Eastern: FBE.06 Freytag-Berndt, 2009 Explore the Balkans and South-East Europe with this Freytag&Berndt road map - the best way to prepare your trip, to plan your itinerary, and to travel independently. This map covers the followin countries: Greece, Albania, FYROM, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegocina, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, the Czech & Slovak Republics, Western Turkey, Western Ukraine, Austria, and Southern Italy. The legend is in 10 ...             Architecture in the Balkans: From Diocletian to Suleyman the Magnificent, c. 300-1550 Prof. Slobodan Curcic Yale University Press, 2010 In this major work, Slobodan Curcic traces the development of architecture in the Balkans from late antiquity to the height of the Ottoman Empire. Covering not just ecclesiastical buildings but architectural enterprises ranging from urban conglomerations, simple houses, and palaces, to fortifications, cisterns, aqueducts, and bridges?Curcic assesses the origins and impact of Byzantine architecture in the region. This book?the first of its kind ...             Imagining the Balkans9 reviews Maria Todorova Oxford University Press, USA, 2009 Unlearning the Balkans As a longtime student of Dr Todorova's (I was under her tutelage for about four years and still correspond with her today), I found this book to be an excellent synopsis of her personal and professional opinions and anecdotes concerning the Balkans. It was like taking my class notes and one-on-one discussions, sifting out the dates, places and events and putting a binding on them. All of her ...             Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia From the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic3 reviews Sabrina P. Ramet Westview Press, 2002 Great contribution by one of the best experts Sabrina Petra Ramet is by far one of the most respected authorities on the subject of Balkan politics. Her skill as a political scientist and her sheer knowledge of the area and the topic come through completely in this volume. That this book got a glowing introduction by Dr. Ivo Banac - another great authority on the 20th century history of the Balkans - is a testament to its value to the ...             Balkan Odyssey8 reviews David Owen, 1996 Personal and highly interesting account David Owen gives a very personal account of his experiences as a mediator, including his frustrations with the attitude of the international community (in particular the US). His views are very useful to understand the mechanisms of international diplomacy in a highly mediatised conflict. It is rather simplistic, in my view, to depict Owen as someone who tried to favorise one one the parties in ...             The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans2 reviews Dennis P. Hupchick, Harold E. Cox Palgrave Macmillan, 2001 Maps and brief overview that are easy to understand If you're looking for maps of how the Balkan borders have been drawn and redrawn between 600-1999 AD, plus a brief textual overview on the facing page, this is the book for you. Several earlier maps also show the general dispersion of the various cultures that inhabited that portion of the Balkans (not always an easy task). Understanding the Balkans is difficult (well, at least it is for an ...             Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944 (Modern War Studies)9 reviews David M. Glantz University Press of Kansas, 2006 Great Book for advanced readers This guy is simply the best military writer i've ever read. At my age, i need a magnifying glass for the maps. That's my one objection, but i assume younger people will have no problem. This is another Glantz special: an utterly fantastic detailed miltary description of the initial Soviet attempt to invade Romania. These books must be a godsend for the companies that make wargames. After reading ...             The Balkan Trilogy4 reviews Olivia Manning Penguin (Non-Classics), 1982 Excellent I'm practically in mourning since I finished reading the last book in the Balkan Trilogy. Luckily, the story continues in the Levant Trilogy, which I plan to read soon. The three books of the Balkan Trilogy--The Great Fortune, The Spoiled City, and Friends and Heroes--tell the story of Guy and Harriet Pringle, a British couple living in Romania at the beginning of WWII. The story has many ...             Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus49 reviews Robert D. Kaplan Vintage, 2001 Solid reading In Eastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan further solidifies the notion that a civilization, at any one moment in time, is a product of and still operates within its own particular historical experience. Kaplan explores this thesis by tracing on an arc spanning from eastern Europe, across Asia Minor, down through Palestine/Israel, and through Central Asia the contemporary atmosphere of various ...              search for books 1804-1999, 300-1550, architecture, breakthrough, caucasus, century, chronicles, classics, cookbook, diocletian, disintegration, eastward, fortune, fortunes, friends, hardcover, historical, imagining, invasion, library, magnificent, milosevic, nationalism, palgrave, suleyman, tartary, travels, twentieth, twentieth-century, yugoslavia books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Strange Animals I Have Known home  impressum - about us