In the First Balkan War, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro formed the Balkan League and fought against the Ottoman empire. Montenegro, the smallest of these states, declared war against the ...

Julie Brill grew up in the US, never knowing what had happened to her father’s Serbian family in World War II. Her new book chronicles a voyage of discovery.

While most Europeans viewed the region as a cultural and economic backwater, the Balkans played an outsized role in continental diplomacy, as Europe’s Great Powers vied for favor by selling arms ...