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Dr Mark Thompson
Reader in Modern History, University of East Anglia. He spent most of the 1990s in Croatia as a journalist, a policy analyst for the United Nations, and then as head of media affairs for the mission in Croatia of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). His book, A Paper House, was an early account of the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Since he researched Trieste for the original Rough Guide to Italy, Mark Thompson has returned many times. Other books include the prize-winning The White War. Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 and Birth Certificate. The Story of Danilo Kiš, which has been translated into Serbian, Bosnian, German and French. A new history of Italy in the mid-1940s, Like a Dragon’s Back, will appear in 2025.