Marko Attila Hoare is a Reader in history at Kingston University. He has been researching the history of the former Yugoslavia since the early 1990s.
"An outstanding piece of work. Written with Marko Hoare's characteristic lucidity, analytic force and mastery of a huge range of sources, it will not only be the definitive work on this complex topic for a very long time to come; it will also stand as a model of how to construct, 'from the bottom up, ' the politico-military history of a modern society plunged into conflict." --Noel Malcolm, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford"Hoare's brilliant and exciting new book addresses two major questions: how was it possible for the Yugoslav Partisans to recreate a state to which the majority of the local people did not owe primary loyalty, and what tactics did they use to win the war? Focusing on the struggle for Bosnia-Herzegovina, it reveals the full complexity of the Yugoslav theatre of World War Two. A must-read." --Sabrina P. Ramet, author of The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005"Based on an unparalleled command of original documents, Marko Hoare provides an analytically powerful but richly nuanced study of the role of Bosnia's Muslims in the Second World War. He challenges the prevailing, stereotype-ridden views of a bipolar conflict won single-handedly by the Yugoslav Communists and shows compellingly that the Muslims were decisive in the eventual triumph of Tito's Partisans." --Robert J. Donia, Research Associate at the University of Michigan's Center for Russian and East European Studies and author of Sarajevo: A Biography"The tragic history of Bosnia during the Second World War is a uniquely rugged and challenging historical canvas that demands a special kind of historian. In this magisterial and profoundly involving book, Marko Attila Hoare deploys a dazzling command of documentary resources to unfold a gripping human story." --Christopher Hale, author of Hitler's Foreign Executioners"To fully understand the destruction of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the early 1990s we need to grasp the circumstances of its creation during World War II. Marko Attilla Hoare has written a brilliant history of this compelling story. Packed with insights into the micro dynamics of civil wars, it reveals not only the centrality of coalition politics in liberation movements but the power of personal relationships, places and the contingencies of courageous resistance amidst diabolical violence." --Gerard Toal, author of Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal"Marko Atilla Hoare's study of the Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War will make a great contribution to our understanding of this complex history ... [He] does a very good job of combining the general picture with detailed accounts, while not losing sight of the complexity of events. He is careful to emphasize both the complicated connections between activists of different groups and the frequent blurring of categories." --Tea Sindbaek, European History Quarterly"[A] judicious, nuanced, and engaging historical analysis of complex political behaviors.... [Hoare] has made a fascinating and invaluable scholarly argument for the importance of Bosnia-Hercegovina and the national question of Bosnian Muslims in the remaking of Yugoslavia during the 1940s." --ichigan War Studies Review
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