WAR IN EUROPE – The Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Overwhelmed Continent

  • The first broad overview of the first war in Europe after the end of the Second World War: perceptive and haunting.
  • Mappes-Niediek, who knows the Balkans like few others, describes the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia – which almost tore our continent apart and has changed it to this day.

A dark chapter in recent European history: the first large-scale overview of the wars in Yugoslavia.

The wars in Yugoslavia shook the global public. They are linked to the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II – with consequences that lead directly into our current times.

In his great narrative account, Norbert Mappes-Niediek, long-term Southeast Europe correspondent and temporary UN advisor, takes us right into the middle of this dark chapter of recent European history: starting with the first tanks in Slovenia and the shock that war had suddenly broken out again in supposedly peaceful Europe, and ending with the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. He traces the fractures of the former multi-ethnic state, looks at the inconceivable massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica and asks about the interests and strategies of the warring parties, but also about the responsibility of the foreign powers – and thus makes the global political scope of the conflict clear.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Berlin
  • Release: 15.11.2022
  • ISBN: 978-3-7371-0126-4
  • 400 Pages
  • Author: Norbert Mappes-Niediek

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WAR IN EUROPE – The Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Overwhelmed Continent
Norbert Mappes-Niediek WAR IN EUROPE – The Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Overwhelmed Continent
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Norbert Mappes-Niediek

Norbert Mappes-Niediek , born in 1953, has been working as a freelance correspondent for Southeast Europe since 1991. In 1994/1995 he was a UN special advisor for the former Yugoslavia. He writes primarily for Die Zeit, Frankfurter Rundschau, Berliner Zeitung and Der Standard. Today he works for Deutschlandfunk among other media. Norbert Mappes-Niediek lives in Graz with his family.