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Article: Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War. By Thomas de Waal. New York: New York University Press, 2003. 337 pages. $35.00 ($19.00 paper).
Numerous accounts have been written about the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. However, few of these accounts seem to be able to measure up to the standard of serving as a dispassionate, impartial examination of the origins of the conflict in the late 1980s and how events unfolded during the war in the early 1990s. Thomas de Waal, noted British journalist and specialist on the Caucasus, has corrected this record by producing a book that is both a poignant chronicle ...