Volume 42, Number 18 · November 16, 1995
The Birth of a Nation
By Misha Glenny
Who Are the Macedonians?
by Hugh Poulton
Indiana University Press, 218 pp., $29.95
On July 26, 1963, an earthquake leveled most of the pretty Ottoman city of Skopje, then the capital of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia. Tens of thousands of people were killed. One of the few survivors of the catastrophe was the façade of Skopje's old railway station, whose large clock has stood still at 5:17 for over thirty-two years.
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