Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #945061 in Books
• Published on: 1997-02
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 235 pages

From Library Journal
Cohen, a physician who researched sources never before available to the West, weaves a rich tapestry covering the last 200 years of Balkan history while emphasizing the role the Serbs played in World War II. He gives us a detailed picture of Yugoslav society and politics, with numerous ethnic groups exercising Machiavelli's dictum: "The end justifies the means." They manipulate power, quarrel and debate, and, more often than not, murder over the fate of their ethnic societies. This book is not cheerful. With few exceptions, Cohen finds the Serbs propelled by anything but the ideals of tolerance and democratic values. Detailing Serbian anti-Semitism before the war and quoting from collaborationist papers that said, "the Serbs should not wait for the Germans to begin the extermination of the Jews," he reveals how the Serbian propaganda machine attempted to promote the idea that Serbs, along with the Jews, were the victims of the Nazis. Thus, he shows that the ethnic cleansing the Serbs are engaging in today has deep roots in Serbian culture. Offering a wealth of new information, this impressive, scholarly book is highly recommended for all history collections. [To conduct his research, Cohen made four trips to the Balkans from 1992 to 1995, where he oversaw a team of native speakers who translated the relevant documents for him.?Ed.]?John Xanthopoulos, Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Rato.
-?John Xanthopoulos, Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Work of a propagandist
Looks like a commissioned propaganda written by a person without any academic ethics and knowledge of the history of 19th and 20eth century Serbia. My the only satisfaction is that I did not buy this book - borrowed it from a library, regretting the time I spent on reading of this book.

True facts about great-serbian propaganda !
This book discovers the true facts great-serbian propaganda always tried to sweep under the carpet.

Laughably Bad
Only a Croatia untranationalist could like this steaming pile of manure. For a scholarly, factual view of Yugoslavia during the war, skip this, and skip equally unbalanced Serbian untranationalist tripe and go straight to Tomasevich's War and Revolution in Yugoslavia.