Kosovo: a Short History

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Pan Macmillan.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. No creases to spine or hinge. No visible faults AS NEW* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no visible faults. AS NEW* Illustrations: B/w line drawn maps.* Pages: 356 pp. text. 136 pp. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography & Index at rear.* Product Description Kosovo, a 55-mile-long plateau in southern Serbia bordering Albania and Macedonia, should by all rights be a historical and political backwater. A Bulgarian geographer who visited Kosovo during World War I remarked that it was "almost as unknown and inaccessible as a stretch of land in Central Africa." The observation would prove ironically fitting by the 1990s, as Central Africa and Kosovo both became sites of widespread genocide, fuelled by ethnic hatreds, of the deepest international significance. Noel Malcolm, a British historian and journalist who has written extensively about the Balkans (including a companion volume of sorts on Bosnia) provides an overview of Kosovo's long-standing cultural divisions in his "short history"* This is a FINE AS NEW copy with NO VISIBLE FAULTS.*