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Florence Levinsohn - Belgrade - 9781566630610 - V9781566630610
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Belgrade

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Description for Belgrade Hardcover. A serious and persuasive questioning of the Serbs' reputation as children of darkness in the Yugoslav War, drawing upon conversations with Serbian intellectuals in their capital. "Illuminating and compelling."-John Scanlan, former U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia (1985-1989). Num Pages: 352 pages, M. BIC Classification: CBD; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 681.
The murderous war in Yugoslavia brings a daily round of revulsion, with the world's press fixed on the Serbs as children of darkness. "A valiant and warlike race," Churchill called the Serbs. Certainly their reputation for war has stuck. But as Florence Levinsohn finds in this penetrating look at the Balkan conflict, the Serbs are complex and often misunderstood. During an intensive stay in Belgrade, Ms. Levinsohn talked with a cross-section of Serbian intellectuals and absorbed the mood of a city enduring a draconian UN embargo. In Belgrade she unpeels the many layers of confusion, despair, cynicism, anger, and yearning felt by Serbs living under a government they neither understand nor endorse, but feel hopeless to unseat. She finds a proud people involved with a war for which they have no sympathy and only long for an end. There is, Ms. Levinsohn concludes, enough guilt in this conflict to satisfy Serbs, Croatians, and Muslims alike, and a great measure of misdirected policy in the West. As she shows, the roots of the war lie in the political exploitation of ethnic and religious hatreds by the leaders of the several groups. Belgrade is a mind-changing book about the bitterest conflict to come out of the end of the Cold War.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566630610
SKU
V9781566630610
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About Florence Levinsohn
Florence H. Levinson was an independent journalist who wrote widely on politics and urban affairs. Her books include Harold Washington: A Political Biography; School Desegregation: Shadow and Substance; and, most recently, Belgrade: Among the Serbs.

Reviews for Belgrade
A perfect antidote to the mediaís version of the war in Yugoslavia...no one can know the meaning of the Serbian tragedy without reading this book.
Barry Schwartz, author of The Battle for Human Nature Her account travels through the intellectual soul of a people in an ancient city caught between old terrors and a modern United Nations embargo, a people too diverse, divided, and complicated to be easily demonized.
Clarence Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, Chicago Tribune
Former U.S. Ambassador To Yugoslavia
An important book...a story that badly needs telling. In a clear and lively manner, she weaves historical background with contemporary observations, leading the reader through the complex and confusing Balkan maze.
John Scanlan
Former U.S. Ambassador To Yugoslavia

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