Andrej Mitrovic is Chair and Professor of Modern History at the University of Belgrade. He has written widely on the First World War and the Paris Peace Conference, on interwar Europe, and is the author of books and articles on economic, social, and cultural history and on historiography. In 2001 Professor Mitrovic received the prestigious Herder Prize from the University of Vienna and the Alfred Toepfer Foundation of Hamburg, Germany. In 2004 Germany's Southeast Europe Association awarded him the Konstantin Jiricek Medal.
'Not a single history of Serbia in the First World War exists in English. The publication of Andrej Mitrovic's classic study on the subject, first published in Serbo-Croat in 1984, is therefore both long-overdue and timely. The book is the most complete, single-volume political, social and diplomatic history of Serbia during this crucial period that exists in any language. Professor Mitrovic, a leading Serbian historian, has based Serbia's Great War on an impressive range of primary and secondary sources. He writes with authority, offering a wealth of information. His book deals with key questions including the origins of the war; the epic Serbian retreat in the winter of 1915-16; internal struggles within the exiled Serbian leadership and its relationship with the Entente governments; the nature of the Central Powers' occupation of Serbia; resistance and collaboration; Serbia's relationship with Montenegro and with Habsburg South Slavs; and the origins of the Yugoslav state.' -Dejan Djokic, editor of Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918-1992 (Hurst 2003).
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