Season 10, Episode 38: Ocean on Fire (Patreon)

This week on MSB, we're talking about motorcycles, bikes, biking, riding on motorbikes, traveling by bike, touring, voyages conducted primarily via gasoline-powered two-wheeled vehicles and looooooooove. Plus, part 2 of our miniseries on Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav wars that may or may not have inspired this dang show. Please listen to it!

Show Notes

• Books:

  • Mark Biondich, Stjepan Radic, the Corat Peasant Party, and the Politics of Mass Mobilization, 1904-1928. University of Toronto Press (2000).

  • R.J. Crampton, The Balkans since the Second World War. Pearson Education (2002). 

  • Marko Attila Hoare, The War of Yugoslav Succession, in Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989, ed. Sabrina P. Ramet. Cambridge UP (2010).

  • The World and Yugoslavia's Wars, ed. Richard H. Ullman. Council on Foreign Relations (1996).

  • Marie-Janine Calic, A History of Yugoslavia. Purdue UP (2019).

• Additional source for the life and career of Croatian peasantist leader Stjepan Radic:

  • Stjepan Radic: His Life, His Party, His Politics, by Ante Cuvalo. American Croatian Review, Year v, No. 3 and 4, December 1998, pp.29-36.

• Additional sources for the Assassination of Alexander I of Yugoslavia:

  • Rare photographs capture the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, 1934, from RareHistoricalPhotos.com has numerous photos from the National Archives of France, taken before and during the assassination.

  • Alexander I of Yugoslavia assassinated, by Richard Cavendish for History Today Volume 60 Issue 10 October 2010.

  • For the 100th anniversary of the attack, Bulgarian news site Epicenter collected excerpts from contemporary reports in the this English-language article.

  • The Assassination Of King Alexander by Blaine Taylore for Warfare History Network.

  • An extremely sensational contemporary newsreel with video of the aftermath can be seen here, but note it's been manipulated slightly to make it seem like the moment of the assassination itself was captured on film, and the three gunshots were added by the editors for Sizzle. 

• Additional sources for the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia:

  • 'Axis Invasion of Yugoslavia' from the United States Holocaust Memorial Musem.

  • 'War in the Balkans, 1941-1945' from the National Army Museum of the United Kingdom, mostly focused on British participation in the conflict.

  • Stories from individual British soldiers who participated in the conflict are compiled as part of the BBC's WW2 People's War series.

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