Historical Dictionary of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Who was it who said a country with no history is a happy country, or words to that effect? Whoever it was, he certainly knew what he was talking about. Bosnia‐Herzegovina has suffered too much history, and who can be sure it is not about to suffer a lot more?

But, apart from the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo at the end of June 1914, the spark which ignited the First World War, but which in fact could have happened anywhere in Europe although the odds were that it would take place somewhere in the Balkans, not...