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James Lyon is an accidental Balkanologist, who has studied the Balkans for over thirty-four years. He received a Ph.D. in Modern Balkan History at the University of California, Los Angeles (dissertation: The Forgotten Ally: Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914), an M.A. in International Relations from Brigham Young University (thesis: Yugoslavia’s Post-World War Two Economic Development), and a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature from Brigham Young University. Dr. Lyon directed Balkan projects for the International Crisis Group for ten years: an accomplished analyst, he has written three books, many scholarly articles, dozens of published reports, numerous Op/Eds, and has testified before the US Congress and parliamentary panels of EU memb ...more

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Norman B. Tomlinson Book Prize for 2015

Excellent News. Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914: The Outbreak of the Great War has just won the Norman B. Tomlinson Book Prize for 2015 from the World War I Historical Association.
http://ww1ha.org/lens-bookshelf/the-t...

Many thanks to the selection committee.

Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914 The Outbreak of the Great War by James Lyon

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	Kiss of the Butterfly 4.08 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Ninety Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanović by Milovan Glišić, James Lyon (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Andrew Boylan 3.89 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1880 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914: The Outbreak of the Great War 4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King of Battle: Artillery in World War I (History of Warfare, 108) by Sanders Marble (Editor), Filippo Cappellano (Contributor), Ioan Scafes (Contributor) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them".
-- Inspector Clouseau”
― James Lyon

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