Download or read book History of the Balkans written by Barbara Jelavich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, which both had their origins in the desire of nationalist circles to complete the territorial unification of their states. A substantial part of this book deals with the wartime experience, the establishment of the postwar regimes and their internal development to 1980 and the divergent paths followed by the five states (Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia) since 1945.