The Impossible Country: A Journey Through Yugoslavia's Final Days - History Book on Balkan Conflict & Geopolitics | Perfect for History Buffs & Political Science Students
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“A tragic portrait . . . presented with sympathy and frequently with humor . . . [of] a disparate people who were never united except by their resentment of a foreign conqueror.” – Atlantic MonthlyIn The Impossible Country, Brian Hall relates his encounters with Serbs, Croats, and Muslims— “real people, likeable people” who are now overcome with suspicion and anxiety about one another. Hall takes the standard explanations, the pundits’ predictions, and the evening news footage and inverts our perceptions of the country, its politics, its history, and its seemingly insoluble animosities.
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I would say that this was the best book I read last year. I really wanted to understand what the hell happened during those years in Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and so on...Brian Hall just exceeded my expectations and I am so grateful that he could write a very easy reading with many facts, data, main events, descriptions and about experiences with local people that will make everything so clear for you. I read it two times since it has a lot of details and valuable information. Bottom line...if you want to understand the war, its reasons, consequences, main events, and details from many different perspectives (serbs, croats and bosnians)...read it now.
