{"product_id":"9780140257717","title":"The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War, Third Revised Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Vigorous, passionate, humane, and extremely readable. . . For an account of what has actually happened. . . Glenny’s book so far stands unparalleled.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fall of Yugoslavia tells the whole, true story of the Balkan Crisis—and the ensuing war—for those around the world who have watched the battle unfold with a mixture of horror, dread, and confusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence in June 1991, peaceful neighbors of four decades took up arms against each other once again and a savage war flared in the Balkans. The underlying causes go back to business left unfinished by both the Second and First World Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this acclaimed book, now revised and updated with a new chapter on the Dayton Accords and the subsequent U.S. involvement, Misha Glenny offers a sobering eyewitness chronicle of the events that rekindled the violent conflict, a lucid and impartial analysis of the politics behind them, and incisive portraits of the main personalities involved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, he shows us the human realities behind the headlines, and puts in its true, historical context one of the most ferocious civil wars of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022416330992,"sku":"9780140257717","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140257717_p0.jpg?v=1763655507","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140257717","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}