IR VERDICT:
SONS OF THE SOIL by Lucas Dines is the story of the Balkans before the first World War when a battle ensues from a variety of tensions–Christians and Muslims, Albanians and Turks, Greeks and Macedonians–sparked, in part, by a U.K. consulate official and his Russian counterpart. A sobering look at what ethnic cleansing truly means for anyone concerned with today’s state of the world.