When Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence in June 1991, peaceful neighbors of four decades took up arms against each other once again and a savage war flared in the Balkans. The underlying causes go back to business left unfinished by both the Second and First World Wars. In this revised and updated book, with a new chapter on the Dayton Accords and the subsequent U.S. involvement, Misha Glenny offers a sobering eyewitness chronicle of the events that rekindled the violent conflict, a lucid and impartial analysis of the politics behind them, and incisive portraits of the main personalities involved. Above all, he shows us the human realities behind the headlines and puts in its true, historical context one of the most ferocious civil wars of our time. -- From back cover.

Includes index. Includes index. Serbo-Croation collection. Includes maps of: Republics of the Former Yugoslavia; Republics of Crotia and Bosnia-Hercegovina; Bosnia-Hercegovina; Croatia; Dayton Agreement. Includes index. First published in Penguin Books