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Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand 1863-1914 Assassination Assassination Balkan Peninsula History Bosnia and Hercegovina Description and travel Bosnia and Herzegovina History Nationalism Yugoslavia Serbs Bosnia and Hercegovina Biography World War, 1914-1918 Causes World War, 1914-1918 Influence Yugoslavia HistoryJudah, Tim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.6 JUDBunjevac, Nina.
Summary: Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi s Persepolis and Joe Sacco s Palestine, Nina Bunjevac s Fatherland is a searing work of graphic nonfiction that tells the history of the Balkans in the twentieth century through the experiences of the author and her family. In 1975, fearing her husband s growing fanaticism, Bunjevac s mother flees her marriage and adopted country of Canada, taking Nina then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Livright Publishing Corporation 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7 BUNCohen, Roger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7024 COHSabic-El-Rayess, Amra
Summary: In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA B SABIC-EL-RAYESS SABWest, Rebecca
Summary: Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans and the uneasy relationships among its ethnic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.97 WESO'Keefe, Emily
Contents: Fast facts -- A visit to Bosnia -- The Archduke and the Emporer -- The Black Hand -- The assassination -- The First World War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.3 OKEButcher, Tim
Summary: "On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo Princip, started a cycle of events that would leave 15 million dead from fighting between 1914 and 1918...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014