Christopher Deliso
Auteur de Hidden Macedonia (Armchair Traveler) (Armchair Traveller)
Œuvres de Christopher Deliso
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 33
- Popularité
- #421,955
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 10
- Langues
- 1
The book begins with an encyclopedia-style overview of both countries with current facts and figures which is useful to readers who are less familiar with the two countries. It then continues with chapters on prehistory and the history of the middle ages followed by chapters up to the modern era. Several of these chapters were a challenge to get through without detailed knowledge of the local geography and some high-level knowledge of people and events. The book would have been helped by the addition of more maps and diagrams explaining what was happening where.
The chapters on Tito were most interesting and easiest to read. The chapters on the middle ages often looked like obscure names splattered across the pages. The modern chapters mention the war atrocities only superficially.. Finally, the price of the book is much too high in my opinion.… (plus d'informations)