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The Fracture Zone

A Return to the Balkans

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The Fracture Zone

By: Simon Winchester
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
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Award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester takes readers on a personal tour of the Balkans. Combining history and interviews with the people who live there, Winchester offers a fascinating glimpse into the complex issues at work in this chaotic region. Unrest in the Balkans has gone on for centuries. A seasoned reporter, Winchester visited the region twenty years ago. When Kosovo reached crisis level in 1997, Winchester thought a return visit to the beleaguered area would help to make sense out of the awful violence. He decided to use Vienna and Istanbul, two great cities whose rivalries helped create the dynamics at work today, as the beginning and end points of his trip. Not specifically a book about war, it is more a portrait of a place and its people in turmoil. Simon Winchester offers an insightful look at a little understood conflict. Steven Crossley’s masterful narration will make listeners feel as if they have entered the combat zone.

©1999 Simon Winchester (P)2001 Recorded Books, LLC Eastern Europe Political Science Politics & Government United States World War Middle Ages Military Imperialism Ottoman Empire Bosnian War
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This is a powerful exploration of a curious part of the world.
I've read it several times and highly recommend it!
He's a great story-teller.

Superb storytelling

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The story was as interesting and complex as all Winchester’s incredibly compiled documentaries are. It was the voice that ruined it. I couldn’t finish listening.

The narrator’s dreadful posh interpretation of Simon Winchester.

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