Serbia is a spirited, fascinating country, and tourism has grown steadily. Diverse, welcoming, and a hell of a lot of fun - his landlocked country in the heart of the Balkans is still delightfully off the tourist trail. Everything you want to know about it - from historical facts to what you shouldn't miss during your visit - it can be found on the pages of these books I've gathered in this list.
Aleksandar
Diklic -
Belgrade the eternal city: A Sentimental Journey Through History
Asne Seierstad - With Their Backs To The World: Portraits From Serbia
A remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under
the regime of Slobodan Milosevic-during the dramatic events leading up to his
fall, and finally in the troubled years that have followed. Seierstad traveled
extensively through Serbia between 1999 and 2004, following the lives of people
from across the political spectrum.
Brian Hall - The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia
In The
Impossible Country, Brian Hall relates his encounters with Serbs,
Croats, and Muslims - "real people, likable people" who are now
overcome with suspicion and anxiety about one another.
Danilo Kiš - A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
The characters in these stories are caught in a
world of political hypocrisy, which ultimately leads to death, their common
fate. It presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction
throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
Emma Fick - Snippets of Serbia
An American artist chronicles her life in
Serbia. Emma Fick illustrated her journey through the weird, the fun and the
unique adventures to be experienced across this small Balkan country.
James Lyon - Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914: The Outbreak of the great war
The book details the first battle of the First World War, the
first Allied victory and the massive military humiliations Austria-Hungary
suffered at the hands of tiny Serbia, while discussing the oversized strategic
role Serbia played for the Allies during 1914.
John K. Cox - The History of Serbia
This balanced and engagingly written history of Serbia will
help readers to understand the complex web of Serbian history, politics,
society, and culture and how the Serbs have dealt with the many political,
military, and socioeconomic challenges in their history.
Lara Zmukic - Serbia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Culture Smart! Serbia introduces you to a diverse, complex, and
dynamic society. It offers background information on Serbian history and
customs, and essential advice on what to expect and how to behave in different
circumstances. If you show interest and respect, you will receive a warm
welcome and lasting loyalty in return.
Laurence Mitchell - Serbia: The Bradt Travel Guide
This new dedicated Bradt guide has wide-ranging appeal for
business visitors, adventure travelers, and those with art and history
interests. It covers fundamentals such as getting there (by plane, an international train, and the new trans-European motorway), a wide range of
local travel options including cycling and driving tours, and accommodations
for all budgets and styles.
Marica Jelisavcic - Eat Like a Local-Serbia: Serbia Food Guide
Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any
travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a
destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food
guides tell you how to eat like a tourist.
Michael Parenti - To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia
Drawing on a wide range of
unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in
1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war and
uncovers hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic cleansing,
and democracy.
Misha
Glenny - The Balkans:
Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
Misha Glenny presents a lucid and fair-minded account of each
national group in the Balkans and its struggle for statehood. This unique
and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century
gives readers the essential historical background to recent events in this
war-torn area.
Misha Glenny - The fall of Yugoslavia
The fall of Yugoslavia tells the whole, true story of the
Balkan Crisis - and the ensuing war - for those around the world who have watched
the battle unfolds with a mixture of horror, dread, and confusion.
Momo Kapor - A
guide to the Serbian Mentality
This book's readers will learn what Serbs like and dislike,
whom they admire and despise, what they eat and what they drink, how they spend
their free time, what they dream about and what they believe; in a word, book
is about what constitutes a Serb from the inside.
Rebeca West - Black Lamb, Grey Falcon
A 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 amongst its ethnic groups. The landscape and the people of
Yugoslavia are brilliantly observed as West untangles the tensions that rule
the country's history as well as its daily life.
Tim
Judah - The Serbs: History,
Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
This history of the Serbs opens with the medieval kings of
Serbia and a battle lost six centuries ago that still profoundly influences the
Serbs. It then describes the idea of Serbdom and examines the tenuous ethnic
balance fashioned by Tito and its drastic unravelling after his death.
Vladimir Dulović
- Serbia In Your Hands
Serbia in Your
Hands is the travel guide for those looking for something off the beaten
path. the book offers historical and cultural notes for each region in
Serbia, along with practical information, such as the best places to stay,
where to eat etc. It is the guide for those who want something
different and who don't mind learning a thing or two during their travels.
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