Air War for Yugoslavia,Greece and Crete is a very accurate record of the the air operations over the Balkans from the initial attack of Italy against Greece until the fall of Crete to the German Fallschirmjaeger.It covers all the actions of the RAF and the Hellenic Air Force against the Regia Aeronautica and the later operations of the Luftwaffe and the Yugoslavian Air Force.After research of the records of all the combattants the writers were able to present a complete picture of their subject.Even though I managed to find some errors(for example,the second line figthers of the Hellenic Air Force were actually 2 Gladiators,2 Avia B-534s and some left over Avia BH33s and not the number of B-534s claimed by the writers)I think that this book is very accurate and an excellent choise to whomever wants to study this front of WWII(altough fairly expensive)

Feminist therapy concepts blend with surveys of women in war-torn areas to provide an intriguing focus which applies feminist practice outside the US. This important survey includes interviews with judges, Belgrade feminist experiences working with female survivors of war, women's projects in the former Yugoslavia, and a host of related topics. Difficult to easily categorize, this will appeal across genres.

What a marvelous work! Should be mandatory for all serious students of history.

The television media is a kind of window on the American house of information. It is an obscure window made of stained glass which one has to crawl up close to and press their face against in order to see anything outside. Still a man's view is obscured. The only thing one really looks at is the t.v. itself, to admire the stained glass window. Newspaper media is a sort of Bay window offering a wide clear view of the landscape and looking out in several directions depending on the newspaper. The radio, the disembodied voice, a skylight. BALKAN BLUES on the other hand is a book functioning as a portal. Rather than looking out of the American house it invites its visitors, the various authors of its stories, to enter and entreats us to understand something about who they are and appeals to the complexity of the places they live. Places outside our own house.

This is a masterfully written and extensively researched book that fills an important gap in the historical scholarship on the twentieth century southeastern Europe. The author carefully examines the political role and influence of religion and argues that none of the main ethnic religions, the Serbian Orthodox, the Roman Catholic "Church of the Croat People," and Yugoslav Islamic community, ever endorsed the idea of multiconfessional and multiethnic Yugoslav state. Powerful ethnoclericalism prevented full legitimization of both the inter-war Yugoslav monarchy and of the post-war socialist Yugoslavia. The author correctly argues that politically active clergy fused religious intolerance with nationalistic animosity to create "ethnic churches" in form and nationalistic parties in substance. The clergy departed from their original purpose and became hypernationalistic, antiliberal, and antisecular leaders who lacked the accountability of their secular counterparts.
I commend it highly.

This readable and well researched study of the Serbian community in Croatia sheds bright light on the political, ethic, and regional rivalries that endure in the tragedy of modern Yugoslavia.

Some might find it biased, but a very good book to read to get the Serbian Royalist Chetnik perspective of World War Two and their strugles against the Communist Partizans, Nazi's and Fascist Croatia.

For many years, I have used the Blue Guides. They consistently provide the most in-depth information particularly regarding any aspect of the arts.They are also amazingly thorough. On a recent trip to Bologna, Italy, others in the choir I was touring with were at a loss as to what to do because their pretty guides with all the pictures and 3d floor plans (guess which), only had 3 pages for the city. My blue guide had 11 pages...in small print telling me of fascinating doorways to poke my head through to see a magnificent courtyard, etc.
I have borrowed the Blue Guide to Yugoslavia from my local library because, as it is out of print, I am having difficulty finding one to buy. Predictably, having been buried in it for one week now, I am fretting that the 3 weeks I have planned for Croatia next summer will not be enough.
Practical information is at a minimum in the guides but there are lots of other sources for this sort of thing.
For detailed, thorough information, the Blue Guides are the only way to go!

This is the best book on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the war ended in 1995.

Just like the back cover says, this is an excellent reference book for high school and college students studying the Balkans. After checking out over 20 sources for a term paper on Yugoslavia, this book turned out to be the one I cited most.