CROATIA: MYTH AND REALITY
C. Michael McAdams

PREFACE

For more than 25 years I tried to help the non-Croatians to distinguish between myth and reality about the Croatia and the Croatians. I wrote, in the first place, the Croatia work: Myth and Reality, with the purpose of responding to some of the myths about this country that appear in the English press of speech. Hundreds of copies of the first and second editing, published in 1992 and 1994 respectively, were sent to political journalists, libraries, universities and leaders in the English world of speech, to fight the propaganda campaign that was carried out against the Croatia and Bosnia.

The rights of author corresponding to the Croatia: Myth and Reality were donated to the Croatian University Publishing house of Zagreb. The book was translated to the Croatian by professor Mirjana Turudic like Hrvatska - Mit i Istina. The 9 of May of 1993 I received first five copies of the Croatian editing printed that morning, when it arrived for the first time at the free Croatian ground, in the airport of Zagreb. That was the culmination of one long passage, many miles and many years.

In 1995 the monograph was published in Swedish like Kroatien - Myt och Sanning, and authorizations were granted to translate it to the languages German, Spanish and English. Although the rights corresponding to all these translations were donated, I have received in return, and more than what it had imagined, the wealth of friendships for all the life.

In the first printing of the first editing I tried to be thankful, naming them, to each one of which they supported this effort with its time, resources, previous corrections and investigations. Soon it was made evident that the list could be interminable. With this one, the final editing, I want to express my deep gratefulness to each one of the people who supported this one and other projects during last the 25 years.

Now that the Croatia is free, it will have many friends. But there was a time, not very distant, in which to support the self-determination of the Croatia was not popular and also he was sometimes dangerous, even in the United States of America. Today, the Croatia has many anywhere in the world more friends than they support his fight to maintain his freedom and independence. Perhaps this monograph helps to take the truth more to some people, and leads to some to read works more detailed and more academic about the Croatia and its old history. The Croatia always had a proud history. Today the Croatia has also a shining future.

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