"The countries with which this book deals-Yugoslavia, Romania, Bul- garia, Albania-are not major pow- ers; their resources are not of critical importance to the United States. American interests in the Balkan re- gion appear to be minimal.
"But all of us have seen half a dozen movies in which the idyllic peace and quiet of an early 20th- century American home are inter- rupted the announcement that in the Balkans an Austrian Archduke has been assassinated, an announce- ment to which...