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The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War

by Slavenka Drakulic · 1992

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Subject
historypoliticspsychology
Genre
war and military
Themes
politicswomen
Setting
1990seastern europeeurope
Audience
adult
Form
essays

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