Mark Thompson (historian)

The most recent of his four books is Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis (2013), which was described by Adam Thirlwell, in a lead review in the Times Literary Supplement, as "a great biography of the work as much as the life".Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 (2008)[2] is the first comprehensive narrative history in English of the part played by Italy in World War I.[4] A Paper House (1992) is a political travelogue which describes the federal republic of Yugoslavia upon the brink of dissolution.Thompson has also edited, with Louis Mackay, Something in the Wind: Politics after Chernobyl (1988), and has translated fiction from French, Italian and Croatian.He lives in Oxford, where he supervises a small number of undergraduate and graduate students at the Faculty of History.
historianTimes Literary SupplementWorld War IThe Guardianmedia manipulationWars of Yugoslav SuccessionYugoslaviaUnited NationsUNPROFOROrganization for Security and Co-operation in EuropeInternational Crisis GroupUniversity of East AngliaMerchant Taylors' School, NorthwoodHessell-Tiltman PrizeOrwell PrizeNational Book Critics Circle AwardJan Michalski Prize for LiteratureThirlwell, AdamMelville House Publishing