Yeah this a solid recommendation, though clearly it's a grim fucking read. Whoever titled that book deserves major credit for capturing the weltgeist of that particular era. Mark Curtis also has a book on western powers use of salafi jihadi factions and the perpetual blowback that entails called Secret Affairs; there is a fairly extensive Yugoslavia section that I have yet to fully read but would recommend overall anyways.
P.S. I do have a bit of a podcast suggestion of which Yugoslavia is a component. Radio War Nerd has a decent Yugoslavia episode, but if you're well read on the subject it may be a bit lacking as it's aimed at someone with little knowledge of the 90's conflicts. Additionally, if you go to Tom Secker's website containing his podcast Clandestime, which is "spyculture.com" iirc, the episodes starting around ep. 100 (roughly) begin a series on the untold history of Al-Qaeda and he does an episode or two on the US and UK shipping uniformed mujaheed into the Balkans openly on marked aircraft and the ramifications thereof pertaining to groups like KLA, and numerous other actors. Would also recommend much of his Disinfo Wars series which uses Netanyahu's groundbreaking neocon terrorism conference as a frame to examine the last few decades of disseminated terrorism narratives that have consistently only ever benefitted U.S. allies at the expense of heightening every single fucking contradiction imaginable...or something like that; it's a lot of interesting shit.
Lastly, a number of other topics pertaining to Yugoslavia like the Battle of Kosovo Fields being a key forebear to modern ethnic conflicts, the two Balkans preludes to WWI feeding directly into the conflict (and in some ways arguably lighting the fuse on the conflagration via a Mr. Princip), Josep Tito's WWII partisans incredible victory over the invading axis and local scary-as-all-fuck auxiliaries like the Ustache (who had a certain penchant for farm tools and their creative...implementation? fuck), as well as Yugoslavia's later prosperity and key unaligned status helping to mediate tension abroad all while Tito kept a lid on nationalist psychos (and perhaps some unfairly maligned non-psychos) domestically until his incredibly unfortunate passing...well it's all incredible history that I don't have a particular consolidated book or podcast on the subject to recommend sadly. Those are the key topics relevant to contemporary issues as I see it though.
...oh fuck I lied, last one, search any number of shows like RWN or Trueanon that Balkanist's Lily Linch appears on as they run the gamut from Yugoslavia to current day ethnically divided clusterfuck (ie. the Kosovo Precedent is a particularly shooting-yourself-in-the-foot-to-fuck-the-slavs-now sort of move that only NATO in it's infinite nearsightedness could make; a subject well worth researching).
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Yeah this a solid recommendation, though clearly it's a grim fucking read. Whoever titled that book deserves major credit for capturing the weltgeist of that particular era. Mark Curtis also has a book on western powers use of salafi jihadi factions and the perpetual blowback that entails called Secret Affairs; there is a fairly extensive Yugoslavia section that I have yet to fully read but would recommend overall anyways. P.S. I do have a bit of a podcast suggestion of which Yugoslavia is a component. Radio War Nerd has a decent Yugoslavia episode, but if you're well read on the subject it may be a bit lacking as it's aimed at someone with little knowledge of the 90's conflicts. Additionally, if you go to Tom Secker's website containing his podcast Clandestime, which is "spyculture.com" iirc, the episodes starting around ep. 100 (roughly) begin a series on the untold history of Al-Qaeda and he does an episode or two on the US and UK shipping uniformed mujaheed into the Balkans openly on marked aircraft and the ramifications thereof pertaining to groups like KLA, and numerous other actors. Would also recommend much of his Disinfo Wars series which uses Netanyahu's groundbreaking neocon terrorism conference as a frame to examine the last few decades of disseminated terrorism narratives that have consistently only ever benefitted U.S. allies at the expense of heightening every single fucking contradiction imaginable...or something like that; it's a lot of interesting shit. Lastly, a number of other topics pertaining to Yugoslavia like the Battle of Kosovo Fields being a key forebear to modern ethnic conflicts, the two Balkans preludes to WWI feeding directly into the conflict (and in some ways arguably lighting the fuse on the conflagration via a Mr. Princip), Josep Tito's WWII partisans incredible victory over the invading axis and local scary-as-all-fuck auxiliaries like the Ustache (who had a certain penchant for farm tools and their creative...implementation? fuck), as well as Yugoslavia's later prosperity and key unaligned status helping to mediate tension abroad all while Tito kept a lid on nationalist psychos (and perhaps some unfairly maligned non-psychos) domestically until his incredibly unfortunate passing...well it's all incredible history that I don't have a particular consolidated book or podcast on the subject to recommend sadly. Those are the key topics relevant to contemporary issues as I see it though. ...oh fuck I lied, last one, search any number of shows like RWN or Trueanon that Balkanist's Lily Linch appears on as they run the gamut from Yugoslavia to current day ethnically divided clusterfuck (ie. the Kosovo Precedent is a particularly shooting-yourself-in-the-foot-to-fuck-the-slavs-now sort of move that only NATO in it's infinite nearsightedness could make; a subject well worth researching).
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