Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

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Summary: "Good material for those who are curious about the Balkans"
Review: When it came out in 1994, this was of the first quality account of the Balkans that the general public could go to for information on the region. Politics are always the backdrop of this travelogue, but there is good general material for those that are curious about the former Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Albania-its history of ethnic clashes and violence, the origins of World War I and II, as well as the Balkans of the bloody 1990s. Kaplan has his critics, but he also has plenty of admirers, and you have to at least enjoy a writer who can cause so much controversy.