"To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to pick up again, as recent and unknown to me, books which I had read carefully a few years before . . . I have adopted the habit for some time now of adding at the end of each book . . . the time I finished reading it and the judgment I have derived of it as a whole, so that this may represent to me at least the sense and general idea I had conceived of the author in reading it." (Montaigne, Book II, Essay 10 (publ. 1580))

Thursday, March 10, 2005

Bosnia: A Short History (Noel Malcolm, 1996)

Bosnia as a unique place with heavier Muslim concentration than Serbia (Slav/Orthodox) or Croatia, but also significant Orthodox and Roman Catholic as powers changed over the centuries; due to location, less dominated by any of the powers.

During WWII Bosnians fought for and against both sides. Author attributes 90s situation primarily to Serbian aggression. Since 1995, the country is now Bosnia-Herzegovina. Serbia/Montenegro to the east, Croatia to the west.
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