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1) Caught
Author
Series
The missing volume 5
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
3) Serbia
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the geography, history, natural resources, economy, culture, and people of Serbia, the larger of the two republics that make up the country of Yugoslavia.
4) Adem's cross
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Seeing his sister being shot to death for reading a poem at a demonstration against Serbian control of largely Albanian Kosovo changes forever the life of thirteen-year-old Adem.
Author
Publisher
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians poured over Kosovo's borders, bringing with them stories of torture, rape, and massacre. One year later, Paula Huntley's husband signed on with the American Bar Association to help build a modern legal system in this broken country, and she reluctantly agreed to accompany him. Deeply uncertain as to how she might be of any service in a country that had seen such violence...
6) Kosovo
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of events that led to the war in Kosovo, discusses attempts to end the conflict, and looks at the aftermath of the war.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Who is Slobodan Milosevic?" "Is he the next Saddam Hussein, the leader of a renegade nation who will continue to torment the United States for years to come? Or is he the next Moammar Qaddafi, an international outcast silenced for good by a resolute American bombing campaign?" "In this first full-length biography of the Yugoslav leader, veteran foreign correspondents Dusko Doder and Louise Branson paint a disturbing portrait of a cunning politician...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Four-star General Wesley K. Clark became a major figure on the political scene when he was drafted by popular demand to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2003. But, this was just one of many exceptional accomplishments of a long and extraordinary career.
Here, for the first time, General Clark uses his unique life experience, from his difficult youth in segregated Arkansas where he was raised by his poor, widowed...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and sent to the gas chambers. He beat the odds and survived...
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Sixty-seven brief essays in English, including firsthand reports of bombings in Kosovo and Serbia, and essays on the current situation and future prospects by historians, regional and world political leaders, philosophers, and Balkan people of various ethnicities
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"This gripping account of the last great European war of the twentieth century comes from a journalist who witnessed the full extent of the Balkan conflagration and its aftermath. Tim Judah provides a detailed analysis of the origins of the Serb-Albanian conflict, the course of the war and civil atrocities, the involvement of the Western powers, the issues and the personalities, and the context for the future."--BOOK JACKET