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The Fracture Zone

A Return to the Balkans

The Fracture Zone( )
Author: Winchester, Simon
Narrated by: Crossley, Steven
ISBN:978-1-4237-1478-1
Publisher:Recorded Books, Inc.
Book Format:Memory Stick Memory Card
List Price:USD $1.00
Book Description:

Unrest in the Balkans has gone on for centuries. Winchester visited the region 20 years ago. When Kosovo reached crisis level in 1997, Winchester thought a return visit to the beleaguered area would help to make sense out of the dreadful violence. He decided to use Vienna and Istanbul, two great cities whose rivalries helped to create the dynamics at work today. Not specifically a book about war, it is more a portrait of it's people and their turmoil.

Author Biography
Winchester, Simon (Author)
Simon Winchester was born in London, England on September 28, 1944. He read geology at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. After graduation in 1966, he joined a Canadian mining company and worked as field geologist in Uganda. The following year he decided to become a journalist. His first reporting job was for The Journal, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1969, he joined The Guardian and was named Britain's Journalist of the Year in 1971. He also worked for the Daily Mail and the Sunday Times before becoming a freelancer.

He is the author of numerous books including In Holy Terror, The River at the Center of the World, The Alice Behind Wonderland, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and.Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World. In 2006, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to journalism and literature.

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