Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Peace Handbooks: The Balkan states (I), no. 15-18
Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Armies of the Balkan Wars 1912–13
Author: Philip Jowett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780965281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
In 1912, the Balkan states formed an alliance in an effort to break free from the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Forming an army of some 645,000 troops from Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenego, they took on a force of 400,000 Turkish soldiers. Both sides were equipped with the latest weapons technology. This book looks at the diverse and sometimes colourful uniforms worn by both sides, paying special attention to insignia, weapons and equipment. It also gives an overview of the campaigns that became a 'priming pan' of World War I.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780965281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
In 1912, the Balkan states formed an alliance in an effort to break free from the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Forming an army of some 645,000 troops from Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenego, they took on a force of 400,000 Turkish soldiers. Both sides were equipped with the latest weapons technology. This book looks at the diverse and sometimes colourful uniforms worn by both sides, paying special attention to insignia, weapons and equipment. It also gives an overview of the campaigns that became a 'priming pan' of World War I.
Peacemakers
Author: James W. Pardew
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813174368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
The wars that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s were the deadliest European conflicts since World War II. The violence escalated to the point of genocide when, over the course of ten days in July 1995, Serbian troops under the command of General Ratko Mladic murdered 8,000 unarmed men and boys who had sought refuge at a UN safe-haven in Srebrenica. Shocked, the United States quickly launched a diplomatic intervention supported by military force that ultimately brought peace to the new nations created when Yugoslavia disintegrated. Peacemakers is the first inclusive history of the successful multilateral intervention in the Balkans from 1995–2008 by an official directly involved in the diplomatic and military responses to the crises. A deadly accident near Sarajevo in 1995 thrust James Pardew into the center of efforts to stop the fighting in Bosnia. In a detailed narrative, he shows how Richard Holbrooke and the US envoys who followed him helped to stop or prevent vicious wars in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, and Macedonia. Pardew describes the human drama of diplomacy and war, illuminating the motives, character, talents, and weaknesses of the national leaders involved. Pardew demonstrates that the use of US power to relieve human suffering is a natural fit with American values. Peacemakers serves as a potent reminder that American leadership and multilateral cooperation are often critical to resolving international crises.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813174368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
The wars that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s were the deadliest European conflicts since World War II. The violence escalated to the point of genocide when, over the course of ten days in July 1995, Serbian troops under the command of General Ratko Mladic murdered 8,000 unarmed men and boys who had sought refuge at a UN safe-haven in Srebrenica. Shocked, the United States quickly launched a diplomatic intervention supported by military force that ultimately brought peace to the new nations created when Yugoslavia disintegrated. Peacemakers is the first inclusive history of the successful multilateral intervention in the Balkans from 1995–2008 by an official directly involved in the diplomatic and military responses to the crises. A deadly accident near Sarajevo in 1995 thrust James Pardew into the center of efforts to stop the fighting in Bosnia. In a detailed narrative, he shows how Richard Holbrooke and the US envoys who followed him helped to stop or prevent vicious wars in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, and Macedonia. Pardew describes the human drama of diplomacy and war, illuminating the motives, character, talents, and weaknesses of the national leaders involved. Pardew demonstrates that the use of US power to relieve human suffering is a natural fit with American values. Peacemakers serves as a potent reminder that American leadership and multilateral cooperation are often critical to resolving international crises.
Monthly Bulletin
Author: St. Louis Public Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Handbook on Racial and Nationality Backgrounds
Author: Young Womens Christian Association. United States National Board. Dept. for Work with Foreign Born Women
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of Balkan and Southeast European History
Author: John R. Lampe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429876696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Disentangling a controversial history of turmoil and progress, this Handbook provides essential guidance through the complex past of a region that was previously known as the Balkans but is now better known as Southeastern Europe. It gathers 47 international scholars and researchers from the region. They stand back from the premodern claims and recent controversies stirred by the wars of Yugoslavia’s dissolution. Parts I and II explore shifting early modern divisions among three empires to the national movements and independent states that intruded with Great Power intervention on Ottoman and Habsburg territory in the nineteenth century. Part III traces a full decade of war centered on the First World War, with forced migrations rivalling the great loss of life. Part IV addresses the interwar promise and the later authoritarian politics of five newly independent states: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Separate attention is paid in Part V to the spread of European economic and social features that had begun in the nineteenth century. The Second World War again cost the region dearly in death and destruction and, as noted in Part VI, in interethnic violence. A final set of chapters in Part VII examines postwar and Cold War experiences that varied among the four Communist regimes as well as for non-Communist Greece. Lastly, a brief Epilogue takes the narrative past 1989 into the uncertainties that persist in Yugoslavia’s successor states and its neighbors. Providing fresh analysis from recent scholarship, the brief and accessible chapters of the Handbook address the general reader as well as students and scholars. For further study, each chapter includes a short list of selected readings.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429876696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Disentangling a controversial history of turmoil and progress, this Handbook provides essential guidance through the complex past of a region that was previously known as the Balkans but is now better known as Southeastern Europe. It gathers 47 international scholars and researchers from the region. They stand back from the premodern claims and recent controversies stirred by the wars of Yugoslavia’s dissolution. Parts I and II explore shifting early modern divisions among three empires to the national movements and independent states that intruded with Great Power intervention on Ottoman and Habsburg territory in the nineteenth century. Part III traces a full decade of war centered on the First World War, with forced migrations rivalling the great loss of life. Part IV addresses the interwar promise and the later authoritarian politics of five newly independent states: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Separate attention is paid in Part V to the spread of European economic and social features that had begun in the nineteenth century. The Second World War again cost the region dearly in death and destruction and, as noted in Part VI, in interethnic violence. A final set of chapters in Part VII examines postwar and Cold War experiences that varied among the four Communist regimes as well as for non-Communist Greece. Lastly, a brief Epilogue takes the narrative past 1989 into the uncertainties that persist in Yugoslavia’s successor states and its neighbors. Providing fresh analysis from recent scholarship, the brief and accessible chapters of the Handbook address the general reader as well as students and scholars. For further study, each chapter includes a short list of selected readings.
Monthly Bulletin. New Series
Author: St. Louis Public Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Quarterly List (with Prices and Postage Affixed) of Official Publications Issued by H.M. Stationery Office
Author: Great Britain. His Majesty's Stationery Office
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Quarterly List of Official Publications (with Prices and Postage Affixed) Issued by H.M. Stationery Office
Author:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Quarterly List (with Prices and Postage Affixed) of Official Publications Issued by H.M. Stationery Office
Author:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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