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Zimmermann, Warren
1935 – Warren Zimmermann was born.
1956 – He completed his secondary education at Deerfield Academy and graduated from Yale University.
1989 – He served as the US Ambassador to Yugoslavia until its termination in 1992.
1992 – His last official act before he was recalled to the United States on the 16th day of May of this year to write a confidential memo to the secretary of state called Who Killed Yugoslavia?
- On the 28th of March, after the agreement had been signed he met with Alija Ali Izetbegovic, leader of the Bosnian Muslims and all indications point toward that fact he made that assurances of U.S. support for a full independent nation. "Izetbegovic’s repudiation of the agreement was the immediate trigger for the war.
- Was recalled by the elder Bush administration to protest the increasing violence of civil war.
1996 – His two books named Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers and America’s Last Ambassador Tells What Happened and Why, were published in this year.
2004 – Died on the 3rd of February at the age of 70 years old, at his home in Great Falls, Virginia due to pancreatic cancer.
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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power by Warren Zimmermann (Hardcover - Oct 21, 2002) “We were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement.”—Theodore Roosevelt, 1904Americans like to think they have no imperial past...  |
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Origins of a Catastrophe:: Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers- -America's Last Ambassador Tells What Happened an d Why by Warren Zimmermann (Hardcover - Sep 3, 1996) Warren Zimmermann was the American ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1992, the period when the breakup of the Soviet empire caused the Balkans to slide into war. In this candid insider's account...  |
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War in the Balkans: A Foreign Affairs Reader by Aleksa Djilas and Misha Glenny and Council on Foreign Affairs Staff (Paperback - Jun 25, 1999) In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. |
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Lot of 2: (1) Origins of a Catastrophe: : Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers- -America's Last Ambassador Tells What Happened an d Why; (2) BALKAN GHOSTS by Warren; (2) Robert D. Kaplan Zimmermann (Paperback - Jul 25, 1993) |
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Comparing the U.S. and U.S.S.R. on social and economic issues (Current policy) by Warren Zimmermann (Unknown Binding - Jul 25, 1987) |
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The Balkans and American Foreign Policy (Editors' Choice Series) by Aleksa Djilas and Richard K. Betts and Warren Zimmermann (Paperback - Apr 25, 2002) |
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