first edition Trade Paperback
2003 · New York
by Gerolymatos, Andre
New York: Basic Books, 2003. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x9. First paperback printing. Minimal wear to corners. 2003 Trade Paperback. xviii, 297 pp. Maps precede text, two sections of black-and-white photographs. When it comes to the Balkans, most people quickly become lost in the quagmire of struggle and intractable hatred that consumes that ancient land today. Many assume that the genesis of the past ten years of atrocity in the region might have had something to do with Tito and his repressive Yugoslav regime, or perhaps with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914. The seeds were really planted much, much earlier, on a desolate plain in Kosovo in 1389, when the Serbian Prince Lazar and his army clashed with and were defeated by the Ottoman forces of Sultan Murad I. (Inventory #: 2338862)