Kosovo: A Short History (with a new introduction by the author)

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NYU Press, 2000 M09 1 - 492 pages

Reveals firsthand the devastating story of the city of Pec, the site of the worst atrocities in the Kosovo War

With a new introduction by the author.

A contested region of Serbia bordered by Albania and Macedonia, Kosovo was left out of the Bosnian peace agreement of 1995. For the 2.2 million Albanians living in Kosovo, this sparked the abandonment of a nonviolent independence movement in favor of armed struggle. The tinderbox Balkan province of Kosovo thus remains in limbo as Albanians urgently rally their forces against Serbian rule.

Exemplifying once again the best of narrative, analytical history, Noel Malcolm here provides the definitive story of Kosovo, from its origins to its current state of unrest. Kosovo clarifies the troubled past and present of this crucial region in a readable and neatly compressed style.

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About the author (2000)

NOEL MALCOLM, author of the widely acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History (also available from NYU Press), has been described by The New York Times as ""President Clinton's favorite Balkans expert.""

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