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Name: The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans Audiobook
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Rating: 3.03 (146 reviews)
Author: Simon Winchester
ISBN: 9781461812944

By: Simon Winchester

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Read By: Steven Crossley Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Listen Time: 8.25 hours at 1.0x Speed 5.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2012 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781461812944

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55:06 minutes

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01:19 minutes

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35:44 minutes

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Publisher Description

Award-winning journalist and author Simon Winchester takes readers on a personal tour of the Balkans. Combining history and interviews with the people who live there, Winchester offers a fascinating glimpse into the complex issues at work in this chaotic region. Unrest in the Balkans has gone on for centuries. A seasoned reporter, Winchester visited the region twenty 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 awful violence. He decided to use Vienna and Istanbul, two great cities whose rivalries helped create the dynamics at work today, as the beginning and end points of his trip. Not specifically a book about war, it is more a portrait of a place and its people in turmoil. Simon Winchester offers an insightful look at a little understood conflict. Steven Crossley's masterful narration will make listeners feel as if they have entered the combat zone.

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"If you are on your way to the Balkans, as we are, this makes even more depressing reading than it would otherwise...."
— Dave (5 out of 5 stars)

The Fracture Zone Listener Reviews

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— William, 9/11/2019
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" This to me was a disappointment. The author has produced better and more convincing work, the appears almost like an attempt to cash in on a then popular subject, the Balkans and the mess it was. I only gave it two stars because it does come with some interesting bits and pieces... "
— Ole, 11/24/2013
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" Travelogue from 1999. The Kosovo Crisis provides the backdrop for a patchwork set of sketches from Vienna to Istanbul trying the explore the underlying drivers of the Balkan conflict. Probably a bit dated by now, but still capable of providing interesting new perspectives "
— Jan, 2/25/2013
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" Interesting travel narrative of a trip through the Balkan peninsula during the Kosovo war. "
— John, 10/12/2012
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" Read this while I was traveling through Croatia. Helped put everything I saw in context. "
— Julia, 9/25/2012
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" I didn't know anything about the Balkans so I picked up this book. It helped, but it only gives a taste for what the area is all about. "
— Peggy, 9/9/2012
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" Part historical perspective, part travel diary. Winchester describes some of the issues and attitudes that have shaped the Balkans. "
— Darren, 9/2/2012
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" What a mess in the Balkans... "
— Ellis, 5/2/2012

About Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, and Krakatoa, all of which were New York Times bestsellers and appeared on numerous best books of the year lists. In 2006, he was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen.

About Steven Crossley

Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas.