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Yugoslavian history

Allcock, John B. Explaining Yugoslavia. Columbia University Press, 2000. Unravels the complexity of Yugoslavia's troubled past and present.

Djilas, Aleksa. The Contested Country: Yugoslav Unity and Communist Revolution, 1919-1953. Harvard University Press, 1991. Analysis of pre-World War II Yugoslavia and the country's postwar Communist movement.

Djilas, Milovan. Trans. John Loud. Fall of the New Class: A History of Communism's Self-Destruction. Knopf, 1998. Essays examining Yugoslavia's Communist regime, its rise to power, and its eventual collapse.

Harris, Nathaniel. The War in Former Yugoslavia. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1998. Description of the events that led to the breakup of the former Yugoslavia and the outbreak of war; for younger readers.

Judah, Tim. History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. 2nd ed. Yale University Press, 2000. Scholarly but highly readable history of the Serbian people.

Lampe, John R. Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Discusses the peoples and the territories that would make up Yugoslavia, starting in 800.

Maass, Peter. Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War. Knopf, 1996. Sensitive examination of the ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.

Silber, Laura. Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation. Penguin, 1996. Behind-the-scenes view of Yugoslavia's disintegration.

Singleton, Frederick Bernard. A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples. Cambridge University Press, 1985. From Roman times to the years after Marshall Tito.

Walter, Elizabeth B. Barefoot in the Rubble. Pannonia, 2000. A childhood story of surviving the ethnic cleansing of Yugoslavia after World War II.

West, Richard. Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia. Carroll and Graf, 1996. Tito's role in the history of 20th-century Yugoslavia.

Zimmermann, Warren. Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and its Destroyers. Times Books, 1996. Analysis of the causes of the breakup of Yugoslavia.

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