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I’m very happy to announce that my new book–A Traveller’s History of Croatia–is now hitting stores! It was lots of fun to write, and if you like what I write about on this site, I think you’ll really like the book.

You can find it on Amazon here: A Traveller’s History of Croatia

I wrote it to be a sophisticated but engaging look at all of Croatia’s tumultuous history. Most of the other books out there on Croatia’s history are pretty dry and academic. This one is much more fun, though it doesn’t sacrifice scholarly rigor. I cover everything from Croatia’s fabulous Roman and Greek heritage to its period of medieval splendor under Venetian and Hungarian rule. I recount the dramatic struggle for dominance between the Venetians, the Habsburgs, and the Ottoman Turks that lasted from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Then I detail the indelible stamp the Habsburgs put on the country during the century when they controlled it all, up until 1918 when World War One catapulted Croatia into the new country of Yugoslavia. The book does a really good job, I think, of explaining the very complex conflicts in which Croatia was embroiled during the twentieth century, from the chaos of the Second World War, to the difficult decades in Tito’s Yugoslavia, to the civil war of the 1990s.

I originally created this site as a lead-in to the book. Since the book is now out, I hope you’ll follow the lead and dig a bit deeper into Croatia’s history! Thanks for reading!