Title: Are there no Outlines? Are there no editors?
Product review: Maddeningly disjointed and disorienting. I turned to this book as to a celebrated tutor, wanting Glenny to make straight the crooked paths of Yugoslavian history. Instead, I jogged along mountain roads to which only Glenny had the map, hearing "snatches of dispatches." Clearly, Glenny possesses a wealth of knowledge about his subject -- but so does the graduate assistant in physics who offers to "clear up a few things," then fills the chalkboard with gibberish, leaving you more confused than when the class began. Shame on the editors of this book for failing to package it in a readable form. What could have genuinely been the answer to thousands of readers' concern about this subject remains a hopeless muddle, a stream-of-consciousness hodgepodge. (For instant relief, turn to Christiane Amanpour's masterful video documentary, Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation.)
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