Conflict in the Balkans 1991–2000

Marl Rolfe is an extremely talented profile artist. He has worked on a number of titles in Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces and Combat Aircraft series. Balkan expert Tim Ripley has been fascinated by the conflicts of the former Yugoslavia since 1992, when he submitted his first report on the airlift to the besieged city of Sarajevo. He has since reported extensively on the activities of UN and NATO peacekeeping troops in Bosnia, Croatia, and more recently in Macedonia and Kosovo. His work has appeared in many well respected defence journals, including 'Jane's Defence Weekly', 'Jane's Intelligence Review' and 'Flight International'. He is the author of 'Air War Bosnia' and 'Operation Deliberate Force', published by Lancaster University's Centre for Defence and International Security Studies.

• 1991 Yugoslavia at war; Slovenia; Croatia; 1992 Bosnian war; Western intervention; 1993 Srebrenica; 1994 shoot down; Gorazde; Udbina; 1995 hostage crisis; enter Holbrooke; Sarajevo; 1996 operation deliberate force; 1997 Albania rescue; 1998 crisis over Kosovo; helping the refugees; enter the Apaches; target Belgrade; Harriers at war; rescue mission; into Kosovo; allied operations.