La Dolce Vita. Croatia Under the Hungarians -- The Ramparts of Christendom -- 'The Remains of the Remains' -- From Liberation to the French Revolution -- 'Still Croatia Has Not Fallen' -- 1848 -- 'Neither with Vienna Nor with Budapest' -- 'Our President' -- The Sporazum -- The Ustashe -- 'My Conscience Is Clear' -- Croatian Spring -- 'Comrade Tito Is Dead' -- God in Heaven and Tudjman in the Homeland -- 'Serbia Is Not Involved' -- 'Danke Deutschland' -- Thousand-Year-Old Dream -- 'Freedom Train' -- La Dolce Vita.
Summary:
In this updated edition of his acclaimed history, Marcus Tanner takes us from the first Croat principalities of the Early Middle Ages through to the country's independence in the modern era. "Full of absorbing stories and important insights, Croatia deserves to be read."-Aleska Djilas, New York Times Book Review. "A lucid, expert account of Croatia's past at the bloody crossroads of big-power ambitions-Turks, Austrians, Italians, Russians-leads smoothly into a riveting close-up view of the 1990s fight for independence." Boyd Tonkin, The Independent.
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