Introduction: liberation and unification
Part I. Ultima Ratio Regnum, the Coming of Alexander's Dictatorship: 1. All the king's men: civil-military relations in Serbia and Yugoslavia, 1903-1921
2. A warriors' caste: veteran and patriotic associations against the state
3. Resurrecting Lazar: modernization, medievalization and the Chetniks in the 'classical south'
Part II. In the Shadow of War: 4. In extremis: death throes and birth pains in the Habsburg south Slav lands
5. Refractions of the Habsburg war: ongoing conflicts and contested commemorations
6. No man's land: the invalid and volunteer questions
Part III. Re-mobilization: 7. Authoritarianism and new war, 1929-1941
8. 'The gale of the world', 1941-1945
Conclusion: brotherhood and unity
Bibliography
Index.
