BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — For the price of a movie ticket, escapist options for people here include a perfect storm, three crime-fighting angels, a nutty professor and being bombed all over again by NATO ...

On April 6, 1941, Yugoslavia was invaded by Germany during World War II, falling in 11 days and losing an estimated 1 million people during the next four years. The attack came as the result of a ...

The small town of Odžak is nestled between the Bosna and Sava rivers, in the north of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. To the north and east, a handful of villages spread over the plains, while to ...

Down through the rocky hills of Croatia and Bosnia last week swept a formidable Axis army. Its aim: destruction of the Partisan armies and liquidation of the free democratic state comprising roughly ...

Today is the sixth anniversary of the massacre of Srebrenica. More than 7,000 Muslim men from the Bosnian village were rounded up and shot by Serbian forces loyal to former Yugoslav President Slobodan ...

Familiar images from cold-war Europe: tanks in the streets, war-planes strafing civilians, determined patriots declaring their independence despite the odds against them. This time the struggle had a ...

The most unsung hero of World War II had last week gained control of 20,000 of the 96,000 square miles of a nation which Adolf Hitler imagined he had conquered early last spring. The Nazis had quit ...

Stepping out of my comfort zone, I volunteered to review Gaj Trifkovic’s military study of the course of World War II in the former Yugoslavia. Perhaps I should not have been surprised to encounter a ...

TITOISM is today at something of a crossroads. If Yugoslavia’s undoubted economic successes during the past twelve years can be attributed to its singular half-collectivized, half-free economy, so can ...

It felt like déjà vu. I spent time with Iraqi journalists and intellectuals recently. They talked, anguished about the disintegration of their country. One female journalist lamented that she no ...