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The most extensive book on Kosovo's history
A politically motivated book
Enjoyble to read, very informative !!!@
Impressive work
malcolm's propaganda piece

Kosovo: A Short History
Noel Malcolm , and University Pres New York
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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 '90s, as Central Africa and Kosovo both became sites of widespread genocide, fueled 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" (although, at more than 500 pages, a not so short book).

Readers following the unfolding war in Kosovo through newspaper and television coverage may well ask why ethnic Albanians and Serbs are struggling so violently to command the small region. Kosovo, Malcolm explains, is the birthplace of Serbian nationalism; the defeat of Serbian forces there in 1389 by Turkish troops became emblematic of the fall of the Serbian empire, as it led to Turkish domination of the Balkans. Contemporary warriors of Serbia are, in Malcolm's eyes, evidently attempting to reverse the course of history by reclaiming the land from its Turkish conquerors--but in the absence of the Turks, they'll take it from the Albanians (the largest ethnic group among Kosovo's inhabitants) whose ancestors converted to Islam when the Turks ruled the region. Malcolm's lucid text shows again and again that the ethnic conflict in Kosovo is less a battle over bloodlines and religion than it is one over differing conceptions of national origins and history. "When ordinary Serbs learn to think more rationally and humanely about Kosovo, and more critically about some of their national myths," he concludes, "all the people of Kosovo and Serbia will benefit--not least the Serbs themselves." --Gregory McNamee

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"Malcolm's narrative is gripping, even brilliant at times. . . . He takes to his task with the vigor of a detective driven by true passion. At times his claims are, in terms of Balkan history,quite revolutionary."

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The most extensive book on Kosovo's history.......2007-04-28

A well-researched book, definitely the most extensive book on Kosovo's history. It covers Kosovo's history since the time immemorial with little attention to the conflict 1998-1999, while Tim Judah's Kosovo: War and Revenge is more focused on this conflict. The only shortcoming of this book is pro-Albanian bias to some extent, yet the book is far from being utterly one-sided and he also debunks some Albanian historical myths.

A politically motivated book.......2006-12-10

This is essentially a politically motivated book written to help lay the 'intellectual' foundation for the U.S. and European support of Albanian separatists in southern Serbia and, ultimatley, the NATO bombing of Serbia itself in 1999. As the book has little historical value, due to it's extreme anti-Serb bias, it is only useful to students of modern-day propaganda.

It is curious that Malcolm has only written two 'short histories' on the areas of former Yurgoslavia: one on Bosnia, a former Yugoslav republic and one on Kosovo, a province of southern Serbia. Why no books on the other former republics? e.g. Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, etc. Or is it not worth his time if there is no potential dispute with the Serbs?

Enjoyble to read, very informative !!!@.......2005-12-21

I found this book very interesting to read, it explains well and gives one a better comprehension of the Balkans.

Impressive work.......2005-12-18

Extremely good knowledge of history of the Balkans, Noel does it by masterly knitting pieces of history together. I enjoyed reading it, due to the fact that many of things written inthe book are also told by my grand father. I prefer the book to all of those interested in knowing the roots of conflicts in the Balkans.

Andrei Stefanovski
Sofia, Bulgaria

malcolm's propaganda piece.......2005-11-19

Seems everyone jumps on the bandwagon to bash the serbs ...
Serbs are full of myths ... I guess serbs are just imagining
all those 200 some medieval churches ... and they are imagining
that they have been systematically harrassed and persecuted
in kosovo so that there are hardly any serbs left there . The
gullible serbs must be fed a good diet of lies by their leaders .Yeah , that's it .

Listen people , my grandfather left kosovo because they kept
waving a knife in his face . Literally . Every serb knows what
happened in kosovo . We don't need anybody to tell us . The history of serbs in kosovo and in bosnia and in krajina is a history of suffering . And here we are defeated and suffering again ... and we don't care , we will always fight
for what is right , you can't do anything to stop us . You can bombard us with a 1000 books to try to feed us the lies and garbage , it won't do you any good ; we won't go away .

As far as the book itself is concerned , nothing more needs to be said than hasn't already been said . You can't call this a history book of kosovo ; because it is not taking into account everyone's point of view , only the point of view of one side . I have never heard of such a history book . Has anyone else ?

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Kosovo. a short history
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KOSOVO: A SHORT HISTORY.

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Kosovo: A Short History
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So obvious !!!!

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So obvious !!!!.......2005-12-25

Written by the master minds of the wars in the Balkans namely the Serbian Academy of Science and Art, of course the Noel Malcolm's is not a favorable one... because Noel's book talks the truth and not lies that the Serbian Academy of Science and Art use to feed the world with.

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Kosovo: A Short History
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Kosovo : A Short History
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