A Nation Forged in War Marcus TANNER [1] When I bought this book from Zagreb, I did not have much concrete expectations at all. It was a novel all in all, and from the title to the contents I was under impression that it was a one-sided and chauvinistic work. Nonetheless, I was still happy to find this novel. Because, it is one of the rare books about Croatian history written in English, and not only covering a recent history, but the one from the early ages. “Marcus Tanner was Balkan correspondent for the Independent from 1988 to 1994 and subsequently the paper’s assistant foreign editor. He is also the…