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This is not only a truly valuable addition to the literature on the breakup of Yugoslavia, it is also an incredibly interesting read. Sir Ivor Roberts was one of the few Western officials with sustained close-up interaction with Milosevic, as well as with other leading Serbian and international personalities involved at the time. It is a truly fascinating account of Roberts's time in Belgrade, full of anecdotes and character portraits.--James Ker-Lindsay, Eurobank Senior Research Fellow on the Politics of Southeast Europe, London School of Economics This intriguing and informative book will serve not only as an explanation of why Yugoslavia disintegrated, and why it did so with such violence, but it will also open areas of debate on those processes which will be of interest and value to historians, as well as students of politics and international relations.--Richard Crampton, Emeritus Professor of East European History, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford A valuable book, and captures very well the bizarre, lawless atmosphere of Milosevic's and the Serb Arkan's paramilitary city.--James Pettifer, professor, St. Cross College, University of Oxford

This is not only a truly valuable addition to the literature on the breakup of Yugoslavia, it is also an incredibly interesting read. Sir Ivor Roberts was one of the few Western officials with sustained close-up interaction with Milosevic, as well as with other leading Serbian and international personalities involved at the time. It is a truly fascinating account of Roberts's time in Belgrade, full of anecdotes and character portraits.--James Ker-Lindsay, Eurobank Senior Research Fellow on the Politics of Southeast Europe, London School of Economics This intriguing and informative book will serve not only as an explanation of why Yugoslavia disintegrated, and why it did so with such violence, but it will also open areas of debate on those processes which will be of interest and value to historians, as well as students of politics and international relations.--Richard Crampton, Emeritus Professor of East European History, St. Edmunds Hall, University of Oxford

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Sir Ivor Roberts was the president of Trinity College, University of Oxford, 2006-17. He worked in the British Diplomatic Service for nearly forty years. Among his many accomplishments as a diplomat he served as Deputy Head of the Foreign Office’s Press Department and later its Head of Counter-Terrorism. He served as the British Ambassador at Belgrade during the Bosnian civil war and the descent into war in Kosovo. He was posted as Ambassador to Ireland, immediately following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. After serving as Ambassador to Italy, Roberts retired from the Diplomatic Service in 2006 he served as Chairman of the British School of Archaeology and Fine Arts at Rome from 2007 to 2012 and is Chair of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association.

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