By: Scott Taylor © 2010
Tpb: 176 pgs.
Price: $18 CAD/USD
During the past century, there have been two major clashes in the Anatolia-Caucasus region. Both resulted in the widespread slaughter and forced expulsion of innocent civilianz from all sides. The first was during the Great War (WWI) caused by the collapse of both the Ottoman Empire and Czarist Russia: the second erupted between 1988-1994. What these two conflicts also share is that few in the West have observed, chronicled or been able to fully understand the complexity of the situation. Thos existing accounts are rife with partisan propaganda. It is important to peel away the rhetoric and get to the core.
Scott Taylor has written about the Macedonian region, and now gives the same attention to this region. There are always two and even three sides to every conflict, and this book gives the reader a better understanding of what happened. Many of the Begaltsi were shipped to Azerbaijan, and this comprehensive history is useful to understand this region. Taylor wrote Diary of an Uncivil War, which gives you a view of what happened to Macedonia during the Kosovo conflict. It is amazing that many of the events parallel what happened in Macedonia and the region in some ways.