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050 00 $aDR1230.S45$bJ83 1997
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100 1 $aJudah, Tim,$d1962-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96116007
245 14 $aThe Serbs :$bhistory, myth, and the destruction of Yugoslavia /$cTim Judah.
260 $aNew Haven [Conn.] :$bYale University Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axvii, 350 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 333-336) and index.
520 $aThis wide-ranging, scholarly, and highly readable account opens with the windswept fortresses of medieval kings and a battle lost more than six centuries ago that still profoundly influences the Serbs. Judah describes the idea of "Serbdom" that sustained them during centuries of Ottoman rule, the days of glory during the First World War, and the genocide against them during the Second. He examines the tenuous ethnic balance fashioned by Tito and its unraveling after his death.
520 8 $aAnd he reveals how Slobodan Milosevic, later to become president, used a version of history to drive his people to nationalist euphoria. Judah details the way Milosevic prepared for war and provides gripping eyewitness accounts of wartime horrors: the burning villages and "ethnic cleansing," the ignominy of the siege of Sarajevo, and the columns of bedraggled Serb refugees, cynically manipulated and then abandoned once the dream of a Greater Serbia was lost.
520 8 $aThis first in-depth account of life behind Serbian lines is not an apologia but a scrupulous explanation of how the people of a modernizing European state could become among the most reviled of the century. Rejecting the stereotypical image of a bloodthirsty nation, Judah makes the Serbs comprehensible by placing them within the context of their history and their hopes.
650 0 $aSerbs$zYugoslavia$xHistory.
651 0 $aYugoslavia$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149472
650 0 $aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xCauses.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114060
852 00 $bbar$hDR1230.S45$iJ83 1997