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Rupert Wolfe Murray and Steven Gordon of Scotland's CONNECT organization continue their extraordinary written and visual coverage of international peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia. ... Read more

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Following the death of the Yugoslavian strongman President Tito in 1980, the several semi-autonomous republics and provinces that he had welded into a nation in 1945 moved inexorably towards separation. As the world watched a series of wars ripped through this modern European state. In this second of two volumes, experts on the Balkan region give an unprecedented, clear and concise explanation of the armies of thethe Bosnian Civil War 1992-5 as well as the conflicts in Kosovo and Macedonia. This includes the regular and militia forces which fought in these campaigns and which ultimately resulted in the UN/NATO policing of the region that continues to this day. The book is illustrated with rare photos and an extraordinary range of colour uniform plates. ... Read more

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Good military history
Osrpey has long been the best place to go for short concise military studies with excellent maps of conflicts.This is no exception.THe second volume in a two part serieson the Yugoslav wars it examines the Kosovo war andw wars in Macedonia and Bosnia.A very good study that any military history enthusiast will enjoy.

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: H. G. Bohn in 1853 in 544 pages; Subjects: Eastern question (Balkan); Serbia; Bosnia and Hercegovina; Balkan Peninsula; History / Europe / General; History / Europe / Eastern; History / Middle East / General; History / Military / Other; ... Read more

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Concentrating on the politics of the Habsburg Monarchy's self-proclaimed "cultural mission" in occupied Bosnia in the period from 1878 to the outbreak of war in 1914, Taming Balkan Nationalism addresses two related issues: the impact of "Europeanization" in a backward society and the crystallization of the identities which have since dominated Bosnian life.

On the basis of wide reading in the Austrian, Hungarian, and south Slav sources, including the Hungarian-language papers of the two leading administrators of Bosnia, Benjamin von Kállay and István Burián, Robin Okey provides fresh and wide-ranging perspectives on a whole range of issues, including the "Orientalist" assumptions of Austrian policy, the struggle of administrators for the moral high ground with nascent Serb and Croat intelligentsias, Kállay's controversial policy of the "Bosnian nation", and the strategy and personality of the intriguing Burián. He also opens up the hitherto unexplored background to student terrorism in the secondary schools of pre-1914 Bosnia, from which the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was to emerge.

Beyond this immediate historical context, the book also sheds much light on wider issues such as the construction of Serb and Croat nationhood in Bosnia, the beginnings of the Europeanization of Bosnian Muslims, and the new divisions created by the rapid pace of social, economic, and intellectual change as the nineteenth turned into the twentieth century. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from History Behind the Headlines, Vols. 1-6, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 8129 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Presents in-depth information on conflicts appearing in today's headlines. Users are provided with historical background and analysis to events to give a greater understanding of the politics, players, and layers of current affairs. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on January 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2911 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: La ruina de Bosnia.(historia militar; análisis de conflictos armados)(TT: Bosnia's ruin.)(TA: military history; analysis of conflicts)
Author: David Rieff
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 2Issue: 13Page: 124

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Explores the human costs and consequences of war in Bosnia, with photographs that illuminate the promises and contradictions of this post-war society. Marked by ethnic cleansing and the worst genocide since World War II, Bosnia has been quiet since the tanks rolled out and the journalists went home. The country is still deep in the throes of rebuilding a civil society, and this book pays witness to the process:

*the exhumation and identification of approximately 20,000 victims of ethnic cleansing

*the widows of Srebrenica, who lost more than 7,000 men to the July 1995 massacre by Serbs

*refugee families who return to rebuild homes and villages destroyed in the war

*the youth of Sarajevo

*and the Bosnians who bear scars of war, including the 3K Sarajevo wheelchair basketball team. AUTHORBIO: Sara Terry was a staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor for ten years.Her work has also appeared in the NYT Magazine, Rolling Stone, and the Boston Globe. She is a 2005 recipient of the Alicia Patterson Fellowship for her reportage on Bosnia.

Lawrence Weschler, a staff writer for The New Yorker for over 20 years, has written about political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award, and of a Lannan Literary Award. The author of eleven books, including Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder and Vermeer in Bosnia, he has taught at Princeton, Columbia, Bard, and the UCSC He currently serves as the director of the NY Institute for the Humanities at NYU. ... Read more

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The Supreme Allied Commander who directed and won NATO's war in Kosovo offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at how the war was actually fought, and explains the conflict's surprising implications for how war will be waged in the decades to come.

Ugly, shocking, frightening, war came to Europe once more in March 1999.

The world watched in dismay as Yugoslavia's military machine attacked its own citizens in the province of Kosovo. Pictures of refugees fleeing and stories of murder and rape flashed to the top of the news. But this time, the United States and its allies intervened. Using an innovative, high-technology air operation, NATO brought modern military power to bear against Serb forces in the field and the machinery of repression that backed them up. It was modern war-limited in scope, measured in effect, extraordinarily complex in execution.

The American commander who oversaw this massive military effort and managed the often incompatible demands of NATO's nineteen governments was General Wesley K. Clark. In Waging Modern War, Clark recounts not only the events that led to armed conflict, but also the context within which he made the key strategic decisions. He also describes, for the first time, the personal conflict he felt as he walked the tightrope of high diplomacy and military strategy and navigated the crushing restraints of domestic politics. Laying out the new realities of war-fighting and war-planning, Clark reveals how the American military infrastructure will have to adapt if it is to meet new threats. This is the story of war today, and as it will be fought tomorrow. ... Read more

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Clark misunderstands modern war -- and his results prove it
Was eager to read an informed account on what went on in Bosnia and Kosovo from someone who was in the position to know and actually made many of the required decisions.I had thought that the seemingly inept handling of both operations was more lack of knowledge of what was actually occurring.I was surprised to find out that we knew more than I thought and the decision-making really was that inept.For instance, Clark defends bombing Kosovo from 10k feet because he was afraid to lose aircraft in a war.His view was that if we had no losses we could go on forever, whereas if we start taking losses we have a decreasing number of aircraft to use and will be forced at some point to stop.I guess that's true if there is no increased effectiveness for bombing at lower altitude -- but no one ever believed that.Clark was simply so averse to risk that he guaranteed that little could be accomplished.If a cause is not worth the risk, we should not embark on it and it was Clark's job to point that out to the President. I was surprised that Clark still missed that point so badly after the fact that he put the anecdote in the book without wishing he'd done things differently or explaining that the conditions looked different at the time.By his account they looked about as everyone saw them , but he didn't understand what was going on and apparently didn't ask his staff for a candid assessment.Good book if you want to learn what not to do.Not good if you want insights into future war.

Clark's Got it.
GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: (to U.S. Government) Gentlemen, there is a lot to do and very little time to do it, in order to prevent. .

GOV'T: Wait. Prevent? We don't Prevent things, General.

CLARK: Why the hell not?!

GOV'T: Because it would be too similar to admitting we were wrong during the Cold War.

CLARK: We were wrong a lot of the time during the Cold War.

GOV'T: You are so fired after you retire early in disgust of this administration. .

Insider account of the Balkans crisis
This book is formally an autobiography, but pays scant attention to the first 50 years or so of the author's life.Instead, Clark has written a strong account of his involvement in the two Yugoslav wars that took place in the 90s; first the Bosnia war, where he worked as a military adviser to Richard Holbrooke, and then his role as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in the Kosovo war a few years later.

These two roles gave Clark insight into the interactions of the objecives, often quite distinct, of military and political leaders.This was particularly true of his work as SACEUR (NATO commander), where he was the focal point of that tension, reporting to the defense ministers and heads of state of the various nations while leading the various armed forces.He also has a good deal to say about the practical issues in integrating units from different countries in a single operation, along with the longstanding problems of integrating the capabilities of the traditionally rival American services.This was, for me, the most informative part of the book, and would certainly make it essential reading for any officer or diplomat interested in this topic.

Clark also has a good deal to say about the institutional problems he had in Washington and the Pentagon.The Pentagon leadership, in particular, hostile to the idea of fighting an enemy that wasn't in the Middle East or East Asia and even more hostile to the current President, undermined Clark repeatedly and then, when the war was successfully completed anyway, arranged for his reward to be getting fired.

The book was clearly actually written by Clark without use of a ghost.This isn't always an advantage - Clark lack's the professional writer's eye for the telling detail so instead sometimes gives us too many details that add up to too little information.But in the end, a book written by the actual actor in these events tells us more than a book written with a smoother style by a ghost.

Something to upset everyone
General (ret) Wesley Clark's recollections of events leading up to the 1999 bombing campaign against Serbia truly has something to upset or annoy everyone.

Before we go into the details of all the various fashions in which GEN Clark can make everyone unhappy, let us consider the context of the publication of this book.The book was published in 2001, shortly after he was fired for his performance as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), both the military commander of NATO and the senior U.S. military officer in Europe.At that point, it seems likely that he was already considering his attempt to run for the Presidency.And limiting what he could say would be (hopefully) a desire to continue to protect classified information that he was in possession of as a general in the U.S. military.So we see indications that this work could be a self-aggrandizing apologia with a gag-order.

The first thing that can upset folks.GEN Clark personally pressured, directly and indirectly, the U.S. to rush into a European war in the Balkans.A constant theme through the text is that both military and civil leaders (including President Clinton) were very reluctant to get the U.S. more deeply involved in the troubles in the Balkans, and very, very reluctant to enter another war.GEN Clark repeatedly appealed to them to use military power to force Serbia under Milosovic to change his internal policies.He also went to directly to the media with his message and through public opinion forced elected leaders and their appointed representatives to comply to his (GEN Clark's) intent.The other interpretation of this is that GEN Clark was the only American leader that *really* cared about the Kosovars and their plight at the hands of the Serbs.

The second thing that should upset people.GEN Clark never mentions any attempt to find out why the Serbs were conducting operations in Kosovo.If, at the very first allegation of violence in Kosovo, GEN Clark and the NATO leadership had made a concerted effort to find out why the Serbs were doing what they were doing, they would have found out that the Kosovo Liberation Army were terrorists and heroin smugglers.This suggests many approaches to resolving the conflict without resorting to a bombing campaign.The Serbs were demonized from the first moment that events bagan to unfold in Kosovo, and never offered a solution other than "stop that or we shoot".

The third thing to upset everyone:GEN Clark put European interests ahead of U.S. interests.GEN Clark relates that Javier Solana, Sec. Gen. of NATO, expressed that failure to act in Kosovo would jepordize the existence of NATO, and that this could not be allowed.Since the fall of the Soviet Union, NATO has been floundering in search of relevance, and has evolved into more of an economic club than a true military defensive alliance.Ultimately, NATO is of much greater benefit to it's European members than the U.S.By supporting Solana's objectives, GEN Clark put NATO and European interests ahead of U.S. national security.The counter argument is that Europe's security is America's security, but with the competing interests and lack of agreement inside Europe, this argument is a sweeping generality, a great sound bite, but devoid of substance.

The fourth thing that should upset absolutely anyone:The bombing campaign was in its second month before NATO sat down and tryed to hash out what the objective, the goal, the desired outcome was.If an Army colonel were to begin a lower level operation (say with 2000-3000 soldiers) without a clear endstate, a concise discription of his/her desired outcome, that colonel would be relieved on the spot.If a four-star general begins an operation without a clear objective, a stated goal, well...GEN Clark seemed to take it for granted that this was OK.

On the other side of the ledger, the book is engaging and well written.The events are laid out chronologically and with enough detail to make it flow well.Despite the constant name dropping, the material was engaging and comprehensive.It also is an education into the inner workings of NATO, and the relationship between SACEUR, the Pentagon, and the President.It doesn't quite give a day by day description of the attack on Serbia, but would be an excellent resource for filling in the blanks behind a dry, academic history of the conflict.This will be an essential work for future historians of the post-Yugoslavia Balkans.

If you have to read this book, buy it used and save some $
This is not a book, but a rambling memoir filled with too many personal comments of little substance.Do not expect an objective analysis as to the causes or the events surrounding the Kosovo conflict.Nor expect a CLEAR or INSIGHTFUL book on how military decisions are made and executed.

Any value this book may have had in describing the decision making process between the US military and its political leadership was buried in the almost constant self complementary remarks. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs, published by Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs on April 1, 2009. The length of the article is 5041 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bosnia: current issues and U.S. policy.(Report)
Author: Steven Woehrel
Publication: Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs (Report)
Date: April 1, 2009
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Kelly presents the never-before-told story of the rescue of Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady in the words of the men who commanded, planned, and executed the mission in June 1995. Braced to mourn yet another young man lost in an inexplicable conflict, Americans had their faith in the military renewed when Colonel Martin Berndt and members of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit lifted the downed F-16 pilot off a Bosnian mountainside. 30 photos. ... Read more

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"Good to Go"
As a wife of one the members of the TRAP mission it was great to finally read something about the men that risked their lives to save Capt. O'Grady.America views O'Grady as a hero, when in truth the Marines are the heros.Imagine, for a moment reading all of the quotes, from the men and not just reading a meaningless name, but actually remembering BBQs, nights out together, and watching their children grow before your eyes.This book gave an insight on the men.Everyone knows everything about O'Grady, but what do you know about the men that made it possible for him to live?

As a footnote: my husband (in the book Cpl Lindsey--he has continued his faithful service and has been promoted)doesn't not share my sentiments.He sees it as a job--that's what he is paid to do.He doesn't even like talking about it.
I am proud that names were put to the other key players in this story!

Not neccessarily a Good To Go book
This is a well researched book, but it is slow moving and got very boring at times.If you want to read the story from the folks who planned and executed the mission this is the book that tells their side, but it lacks a certain excitement.Capt O'Grady is quoted only a few times.I was surprised that certain mistakes made during the planning and execution of the rescue were disclosed.

'Good to Go' : The Rescue of Capt. Scott O'Grady, Usaf, from
Embelished.Know inside story.Should NEVER have been shot down in the first place.Laundry list of errors on ground starting with basic rescue procedures.

OUSTANDING!!!
The account of Capt. O'Grady was of personal interest to me.I deal with much of the same equipment that he entrusted his life with.His Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape instructors must be quite proud of him.Aswell as his Life Support Equipment Maintainers.Great job to all involvedin the rescue mission!

I wish there were more books like this out there!!
I'm so impressed with our military.The men that flew into Bosnia to rescue Scott O'Grady are true hero's.This book goes into a lot of detail on how our armed forces work together in crisis situations.It's awesome!! ... Read more

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From my perspective.
I am about to study European History at college and have wanted to know more about the background to the war in Bosnia for some time. I have found many authors to be very heavy going but I was recommended Wiebes by a friend. The approach that the author has taken gives a refreshing perspective told using fascinating research and collection methods.

It's hard to believe that such a catalogue of errors could have been allowed to take place and one wonders what a different place the world would have been if those who thought they knew better had actually done better.

I believe that the author has actually invested deep personal emotion in this cause and that shone through the awful detail to me as a reader.

I enjoyed the way that open source intelligence was utilised to provide such global depth. I understand that the author may be speaking at an intelligence conference in DC next year and I will try my best to be there. (Poor student!)

See also http://www.balkanpeace.org.

Unique Blend of Lessons Learned and Tutorial on Intelligence

This is a superb publication.An American, who would never have received the kind of direct official support provided to the author by the government of The Netherlands, could not have written it.

This is the only book that I know of that fully integrates deliberate studies of UN intelligence; Western and NATO intelligence (which the author correctly notes does not exist); Dutch intelligence; and belligerent party intelligence.

Several recurring themes of lasting value emerged from my reading of this book:

1) The UN is dangerously devoid of intelligence qua decision-support.The culture of the UN leadership, the UN bureaucracy, and the UN delegates is one that places a higher priority on the semblance--the mockery--of lip service to open sources and legal methods, while sacrificing the lives of UN forces in the field.One cannot read this book, and its superb documentation of how UN Force Commander after UN Force Commander pleaded for intelligence support, only to be told no by the staff in New York, without becoming very angry.This book makes it perfectly clear that the UN leadership failed the Croats, the Serbs, and the international peacekeepers, in every possible way.Toward the end of the book the author also focuses on the UN as a source for the belligerents, i.e. UN incapacity for operational security and secure communications in fact makes it a primary source for belligerents seeking to kill one another.

2) The West failed in Bosnia in part because it became over-reliant on technical intelligence (which it could not process or analyze with sufficient speed and reliability), and did not have adequate numbers of competent clandestine Human Intelligence (HUMINT) or even ground-truth observers in the region.A contributing source of failure was the evidently deliberate decision on the part of the Clinton White House to downplay the conflict and to withhold such intelligence warning as they did have from the UN, in the misplaced belief that sharing such information would interfere with the peace process.Tens of thousands died because of Clinton White House irresponsibility.

3) Intelligence "liaison" or structured sharing across national boundaries, was an ungodly mess made worse by the inherent biases and rose-colored glasses worn by the Americans and the British on one side, and the French and the Germans on the other."Wishful thinking" by policy makers interfered with proper assessments of the relative condition and intentions of the various belligerents.

4) The CIA clandestine endeavor was split, with one Station operating out of Sarajevo and another out of Zagreb, and no overall coordination or integration of sources and reports.

5) Civil Affairs (CA) as a military occupational specialty is blown forever by CIA Directorate of Operations (DO) abuses, most without the permission of the U.S. European theater commander.CIA/DO managers should be disciplined for this breach of internal US government protocols.

6) The Dutch were not ready to field a major operational or tactical intelligence support architecture, and in-fighting among various elements prevented the various analysts from making the most of what little they could glean from varied sources.The same was actually true of all Western intelligence communities--all had other priorities and too few resources [although language deficiencies are not emphasized by the author, one presumed a grotesque lack of required competencies across the Croat and Serb dialects as well as Yugoslavian, Turkish, and Arabic].In the view of a senior officer whose quotations close Chapter 3, heads should be rolling for dereliction of duty--although the subject refers only to the Dutch, the reviewer would add US and British heads as well.

7) The book excels--is remarkable and perhaps unique--for its discussion of the secret arms supplies--not only the routes, the providers, the landing zone delivery means--but the active violation by the US of the embargo, and the active role of US Special Forces in violating the embargo without a covert action "finding", and hence also in violation of US law.Other nations were equally at fault. It is clear from the book that the UN needs not only operational and tactical intelligence for the specific area of operations, but an extended intelligence and operational capability sufficient to *interdict* incoming arms to the belligerents.This book may well be the single best reference on this topic.

8) The sections of the book on signals and imagery intelligence are a work of art, combining historical scholarship with original research and a very fine tutorial aspect.The listing of the 11 disadvantages of SIGINT (pages 224-228) is the finest I have ever seen.The bottom line in both instances is: too much collection, too little processing and analysis.The author uses a remarkable quote from a former Director of the National Security Agency to make this point: good news is that we can exploit a million messages a day; bad news is that we don't know which million out of the billions we capture to do...Also interesting is the detailed accounting of belligerent party competencies in SIGINT and IMINT, to include the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and advanced methods.

9)The book ends with two notes that I choose to emphasize, although the author makes many valuable observations in his conclusions that I will not repeat here:first, support to UN operations was the *fifth* priority for Western intelligence, coming after force protection, after ground truth observation, after support for air targeting, and after support for NATO ground troop planning; and second, Doctors Without Borders, a non-governmental organization, was the *only* entity to get true validated warning of the Srebrenica genocide.

The index is terrible-names only.Properly indexing the book for references to all intelligence sources and methods as well as events and practices, would make it 2X to 3X more valuable as a basic reference.

This book is highly recommended and a "must have" for every national security and international affairs library, and for every professional interested in peacekeeping intelligence. ... Read more

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Offered the job of succeeding David Owen as the European negotiator in Bosnia, Carl Bildt thought hard before accepting. Sustaining a coherent diplomatic initiative is exhausting and exasperating work, and the difficulties, disapp- ointments and even betrayals he suffered in the job, amply justified his hesit- ation. but the prize of seeing Bosnians beginning to put together the pieces oftheir country was a great reward.There are powerful and poignant moments, and Carl Bildt provides new inform- ation on some turning points in the Balkan saga, such as the mass killings at Srebrenica, the Croat capture of the Krajinas, and the tragic failure to preventthe Serb exodus from Sarajevo. ... Read more

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Starting a war is the easy part
"The Struggle For Peace in Bosnia" (original title: "Uppdrag: fred") is Carl Bildt's own account for his time as the UN High Representative in Bosnia. The mission at the time was to build and keep the peace in Bosnia after the war that followed the breakdown of former Yugoslavia. In his book, Bildt does not hesitate to say exactly what he thinks about indivduals and about the sometimes absurd situations he had to deal with. This goes equally for all parties in the conflict. For precisely this reason, we get a unique opportunity to follow the work required to restore peace and order after a war. Anyone who believes armed conflicts are not very complex issues will need to think again after reading this book. This book is highly urgent, given the development of conflicts in the world in the last few decades and especially after the end of the cold war.

A detailed account!
With his customary ambitiousness, Carl Bildt sets out to explain the war in Bosnia, and how it eventually was brought to an end. In doing this, Bildt grants himself maybe too central a role in the peace process. Bildtdoes not try to hide how annoying he found the Clinton administration'sattempts to control the European events. The account is certainlyinteresting, however maybe somewhat too detailed. ... Read more

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Chapters: Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 61. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: shown in dark blue The Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia (Croatian: ) was an unrecognised entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina that existed between 1991 and 1994 during the Bosnian war. It proclaimed its existence on November 18, 1991, and claimed to be a separate or distinct "political, cultural, economic and territorial whole" in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) concluded that Herzeg-Bosnia was founded with the intention to secede from Bosnia and Herzegovina and unite with Croatia. These aspirations, supported by the Republic of Croatia, were manifest, among other things, by Herzeg-Bosnia's use of Croatian currency and Croatian language and the granting by the Republic of Croatia of Croatian citizenship to Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia illegal on 14 September 1992. Neither the self-proclaimed Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia, nor the later self-proclaimed Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia were ever internationally recognised. Herzeg-Bosnia ceased to exist in 1994 when it was joined to the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina upon the signing the Washington Agreement by the authorities of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The official capital city of Herzeg-Bosnia was western Mostar. However, being that Mostar was a war zone, effective control center was in Grude. "Herzeg-Bosnia" is one of the unofficial name variations of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Allegedly, the name appeared in late 19th century and at beginning of 20th century. Today it is primarily used as the referen...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5208457 ... Read more

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This is a young cavalry lieutenant's moving and shocking account of front line service in the cauldron of war. His troop of Scimitar light-armoured vehicles was attached to the 1 CHESHIRE Battle Group (under the charismatic command of Colonel Bob Stewart). Fresh from Germany he and his men found themselves in a highly political and lethally dangerous civil war. They witnessed appalling atrocities and human tragedy on a giant scale. Both the soldiers and civilians showed massive courage and resilience.

Thanks to the Author's diary we have here an extraordinary spontaneous and important account of British troops performing vital military and humanitarian tasks. War correspondent and MP, Martin Bell describes it as 'earning its place among the impartial narratives of the Bosnian War ... Read more