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Finally, we have it from the horse's mouth: the 1990s retold - or reimagined - by Mirjana Markovic, the widow of former Serbian leader and indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic. The title of her new book, This Is How It Was (Bilo Je To Ovako, in Serbian), assures us that we might as well forget everything we know about that tragic period as Markovic presents her version of Serbia's recent history over roughly 1,000 self-indulgent pages.

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