Title: Move on
Product review: If this had been published in the 1940s, it could be looked upon as a decently entertaining travelogue and its poor understanding of Balkan history could be excused as a relic of a different time (much like a poor man's Rebecca West). However, as this book was the first to come out in the wake of the Yugoslav wars in English, it had a very unfortunate influence on opinions and policies in the West from 1992-1994. Kaplan lacks the ability to distinguish history from mythology, and this book is riddled with factual inaccuracies and conceptual misinterpretations. Readers looking for a good Balkan-history themed travelogue set at the start of the recent wars would do much better to read Brian Hall's The Impossible Country.
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