Neal Rauhauser reviewed The Balkans by Misha Glenny
Why the Balkans are so crazy
5 stars
This was one of the first books I picked up during my western history reading phase twenty years ago, and it's the one in my memory that stands out as being a really good read for background on what's happening there today. There are echoes of the Ottoman collapse to be seen in Russia's current convulsions, so it's good for more than just the Kosovo/Serbia conflict.