Marcus Tanner is a London-based writer, journalist, editor, and commentator, specializing in Eastern and Central Europe, the Balkans, and Celtic countries.
“Written with vigor, full of absorbing stories and important
insights, Croatia deserves to be read.” —New York
Times
“Stimulating … A long-overdue corrective to the onesidedly
negative view long entertained about Croatia by the educated
British public." —Times Higher Education Supplement
“A lucid, expert account of Croatia's past at the bloody crossroads
of big-power ambitions – Turks, Austrians, Italians, Russians –
leads smoothly into a riveting close-up view of the 1990s fight for
independence.” —Boyd Tonkin, Independent
"Lucid and accessible."—Melanie McDonagh, Evening Standard
"Croatia has often but not always been at war. After the Habsburgs
historic victory over the Turks in the 1690s, northern Croatia
enjoyed the benefits of peace and orderly government with few
interruptions until the First World War. The 20th century has
undone those gains. The last three generations have known warfare
on a scale not seen since the Middle Ages. After the carnage of the
First World War, followed the disastrous 'Independent State of
Croatia' in 1941, a poisoned chalice, tainted with a Fascist
ideology and an alliance with Hitler's Germany. The result was to
plunge Croatia into civil war between left-wing Partisans and the
Fascist Ustashe. And, after emerging into independent statehood
once again in the 1990s, the Croats have continued to be dogged by
the legacy of the past. The fighting of the 1940s and the mass
killings of Croatia's Serb community came back to haunt the country
50 years on."—From the preface
"Croatia has often but not always been at war. After the Habsburgs
historic victory over the Turks in the 1690s, northern Croatia
enjoyed the benefits of peace and orderly government with few
interruptions until the First World War. The 20th century has
undone those gains. The last three generations have known warfare
on a scale not seen since the Middle Ages. After the carnage of the
First World War, followed the disastrous 'Independent State of
Croatia' in 1941, a poisoned chalice, tainted with a Fascist
ideology and an alliance with Hitler's Germany. The result was to
plunge Croatia into civil war between left-wing Partisans and the
Fascist Ustashe. And, after emerging into independent statehood
once again in the 1990s, the Croats have continued to be dogged by
the legacy of the past. The fighting of the 1940s and the mass
killings of Croatia's Serb community came back to haunt the country
50 years on."—From the preface
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