The breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s was the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II, costing thousands of lives. Nigel Thomas and K Mikulan provide the first detailed account of the struggle that focuses on the numerous combatant armies. Including extensive research through official documents and local sources, they examine the political background and the military campaigns, supplementing their text with detailed maps, orders of battles, rank insignia plates and colour photographs and illustrations. This book, the first in a two-part series, is the only concise, authoritative and illustrated guide to the regular and militia forces of the campaigns in the former Yugoslavia.

Author Biography

Dr Nigel Thomas is an accomplished linguist and military historian and is currently a Senior Lecturer in charge of the Business Language Unit at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle. His interests are 20th century military and civil uniformed organisations, with a special interest in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. He was recently awarded a PhD on the Eastern Enlargement of NATO. He lives in Tyne-and-Wear, UK. Krunoslav Mikulan is one of Nigel Thomas' excellent contacts in former Yugoslavia.