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All You Want to Know: Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia CS: The History Behind the Conflict in Central Europe (All You Want to Know Series)

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The story line is exceptionally interesting, but the details are rather weak. The title is misleading, since events in Kosovo occupy only a few pages. Instead, the book skims history from Roman times to the present. As such, it never goes into much detail. The book quotes many famous people. Each quote is read with a silly accents. This makes many a quote difficult to understand. There is a curiously anti-communist theme to the narrative, but nowhere does the author seriously critique communist philosophy. The book is probably useless for European readers closer to the action, but for American readers, it will all be very useful.

This is a typical "All you want to know" audiobook. It's content is informative, but lacks the depth and specifics that might intrigue the more serious listeners. In the parts throughout the entire tape where actors come in and speak with specific foreign accents that fit the particular scenarios, it becomes very irritating, since these accents substantially undermines my understanding of the content, and some of them make the actors sound extremely unintelligent. No one will believe the Austrian king would speak in the way that an uneducated hobo would, but that's exactly how he sounded like.

This introductory set of tapes helped in understanding the region itself. This is an important area of the world that is difficult for outsiders to comprehend. History and geography are extremely important to the Balkan societies. The narrators in this tape presented the material in a unique way. I consider this just an introduction to the region that was so important to the Romans.