January 19, 2006
BOOK REVIEW PART I Military Operations Macedonia (Part 2), From the Spring of 1917 to the End of the War The Imperial War Museum and The Battery Press (1935, reprinted 1997), 365 pp. 21 appendices, 10 sketches and maps (including 1 fold-out) and 6 pictures Reviewed by Christopher Deliso Rescuing long-forgotten details of the First [...]
September 22, 2005
Byzantine Churches and Monasteries of Crete: A Complete Guide to the Sacred Places of Crete, with an Attached Map of Each Route By Nikos Psilakis Karmanor (1994), 205 pp., numerous color illustrations and fold-out color map Reviewed by Christopher Deliso Important note: this book is not available from Amazon.com. Inserted title links refer to ordering [...]
August 27, 2005
Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire By Gábor Ágoston Cambridge University Press (2005), 277 pp., 20 illustrations, 4 maps, 32 tables Reviewed by Christopher Deliso Hungarian scholar Gábor Ágoston, an Associate Professor of History at Georgetown, has in Guns for the Sultan done marvelous work in using [...]
August 20, 2005
Music of the Ottoman Empire: Turkish Classic Music ARC Music (2001), 1 CD: 10 tracks (57:10) Music Review by Christopher Deliso Released by world music specialist ARC Music of Great Britain, Music of the Ottoman Empire is an invigorating compilation of Turkish classical music by 19th century Ottoman composers. This is big music, regal music; [...]
August 18, 2005
The Crimes of the Fascist Occupants and their Collaborators against the Jews in Yugoslavia Jasenovac Research Institute, 2005 (in Serbian, with summary in English) Reviewed by Christopher Deliso Originally compiled by a former Yugoslav army captain and concentration camp survivor and published by the Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia in 1952, this detailed account [...]
August 3, 2005
Military History of Macedonia By Dr. Vance Stojcev Skopje Military Academy (2004), 2 volume box set; 775 pages, 115 full-color maps and 13 appendices, ISBN: 9989-134-05-7 In this interview/review by Balkanalysis.com Christopher Deliso, emeritus member of the Macedonian Military Academy Dr. Vance Stojcev discusses his career as a military historian in the former Yugoslavia and [...]
May 9, 2005
Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1183-1365 By István Vásáry Cambridge University Press (2005), 230 pp., 3 appendices, incl. 4 maps Reviewed by Christopher Deliso In terms of Balkan history, they could be called the Turks before the Turks – those hard-living nomad warriors from beyond the Ukrainian steppes who descended on [...]
April 26, 2005
Stjepan Radic, the Croat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904-1928 By Mark Biondich University of Toronto Press (2000), 344 pp. Reviewed by Christopher Deliso This invaluable contribution to Croatian political life in the early twentieth century, centered on the towering figure of Stjepan Radic (1871-1928), chronicles the development of Croatian political and [...]
March 21, 2005
The Nazis in the Balkans: A Case Study of Totalitarian Politics by Dietrich Orlow University of Pittsburgh Press (1968), 235 pp. Reviewed by Carl K. Savich In The Nazis in the Balkans: A Case Study of Totalitarian Politics, Dietrich Orlow examined the Sudosteuropa-Gesellschaft or SOEG, the Southeast-European Society, a Nazi organization or agency created [...]
March 14, 2005
The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War By Richard C. Hall 176 pp., 6 maps Reviewed by Christopher Deliso In The Balkan Wars, Minnesota State University Professor Richard C. Hall has provided the first readable and concise overview of the short but turbulent series of wars that gripped the Balkans beginning in [...]
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