Balkan Ghosts A Journey Through History (New Edition)

Name: Balkan Ghosts A Journey Through History (New Edition)
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ISBN: 9780312424930

ISBN-10: 0312424930

ISBN-13: 9780312424930

Edition: 2010

Authors: Robert D. Kaplan

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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" (The Boston Globe), Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic. This new edition includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between l996 and 2000 beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 5/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.54" wide x 8.29" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Journalist Robert D. Kaplan is a contributing editor The Atlantic Monthly. He has traveled extensively, and his journeys through Yugoslavia and America have produced, respectively, Balkan Ghosts (which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize) and An Empire Wilderness. Kapan is also the author of Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (Random House, 2010) and The Revenge of Geography (Random House, 2012) Kaplan has lectured at the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon's Joint Staff, major universities, the CIA, and business forums.



Prologue : saints, terrorists, blood, and holy water



Yugoslavia : historical overtures



Croatia : "just so they could go to heaven"



Old Serbia and Albania : Balkan "West Bank"



Macedonia : "a hand thirsting towards the realm of the stars"



The white city and its prophet



Romania : Latin passion play



Athenee Palace, Bucharest



The Danube's bitter end



Moldavia : "conditioned to hate"



The land beyond Dracula's castle : the painted monasteries of Bucovina



Transylvanian voices



Transylvanian tale : the Pied Piper's children go back to Hamelin



Last glimpses : Timisoara and Bucharest



Bulgaria : tales from communist Byzantium



"The warmth of each other's bodies"



The price of friendship



The bad and the good



Greece : western mistress, eastern bride



Farewell to Salonika



"Teach me, Zorba : teach me to dance!"



The secret history


Epilogue : the road to Adrianople