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Download for print-disabled. Check nearby libraries Library. The author, a journalist who has covered the Yugoslav conflicts for the last 10 years, describes with clarity and compassion the long descent of the region into war, and the frantic efforts of Western diplomats to prevent the conflict. We can therefore calmly classify this book as one suitable for teaching purposes and the classroom. As a hard-nosed and tenacious investigative journalist, Judah worries his way, terrier-like to a ground-breaking account of the origins and development of the KLA.
His narrative of the war is full of telling quotations and vivid detail. He is remarkably fair to both the Serb and Albanian sides. This book is a great achievement.
He recounts the Serbian horrors, but also the later massive flight of the Serbs that created a new order in Kosovo. He records the lawlessness of the new masters there, the hard boys of the Kosovo Liberation Army who emerged as the inheritors of the place. Drawing both on his firsthand experiences in the region and on secondary literature. This is an excellent introduction to the latest phase of Balkan warfare. Future historians who write about the war will start here to see how contemporaries compiled the facts and understood them.
As such, Judah provides an invaluable service: he has recorded the minimal set of events we need to analyze in order to make up our minds about why the war occurred and whether it was legitimate. Vasquez, The International History Review. A straightforward narrative of the period between the rise of Milosevic and the end of NATO airstrikes. By now it can seem slightly dated, but nevertheless Judah's writing style managed to keep me entertained.
Following events chronologically, he provided enough historical and geopolitical context for me to understand the broader implications of the conflict without getting bogged down or digressing top far from his narrative. Oct 03, Matt rated it really liked it. A brilliantly written book covering the history of Kosovo both political and military right up to and including the KFOR intervention. Easy to read and follow and paints the untold picture of the brutal conflict which saw the largest European deployment of force since WW2!
A great read for anyone interested in European conflicts or who was part of the war or peace keeping forces deployed there! Jun 02, Lisa rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: anyone who wants to understand the war in kosova. Shelves: europe. Jan 09, Dan rated it really liked it. One of the better, more detailed books I read on the subject. Apr 01, Kirk Borger rated it liked it. More fun in the Balkans.
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Be the first to start one ». Readers also enjoyed. About Tim Judah. Tim Judah. Tim Judah is a reporter and political analyst for The Economist, and has written several books, mainly focussing on Serbia and Kosovo. During the Kosovo war he broadcast widely and wrote Tim Judah is a reporter and political analyst for The Economist, and has written several books, mainly focussing on Serbia and Kosovo. Judah has reported from numerous places, for a wide variety of newspapers, and other outlets.
Recently, Judah has also written highly praised articles relating to the War in Donbass. He is now based in West London and is married to writer and publisher Rosie Whitehouse and has five children. It analyzes the character and career of Slobodan Milosevic and explains how Kosovo provided the springboard for him to mobilize the Serbs and seize supreme power. It reveals the great lost opportunity of the February Rambouillet conference for peace and compromise in the southern Balkans.
It explains how exiled Kosovar militants could take their war from Swiss cafes to the mountains of northern Albania. And it examines how and why NATO launched its first ever war - a day campaign of high-tech air strikes against Serbia - believing the onslaught would be over in days. Based on research, eyewitness reports and interviews with the leading protagonists, Judah's book presents a detailed account of the origins of the Serb-Albanian conflict, the course of the war, involvement of the Western powers, the implications for the global strategic landscape, and the options for the future.
When the "ethnic cleansing" started in Kosovo, he was there. So his Kosovo: War and Revenge is well placed to offer some insights, variously scathing and compassionate, on the whole sorry mess. It doesn't matter how many Serbian tanks you allegedly knock out with your high-tech bombing raids "since the most potent weapon in ethnic cleansing is the cigarette-lighter needed to set houses on fire".
Judah can evoke the madness of Kosovo in a single, startling set piece: vengeful Albanians rampaging through a Serbian Orthodox priest's house; smashing icons; stealing candles; French soldiers from KFOR "looking on amiably"; a nearby Gypsy house also on fire; and a passing French commander explaining to an open-mouthed Judah that the official NATO policy at this moment is "to let them pillage".
Paraphrasing a Belgrade journalist, he notes sadly that Serbia has still not found its Adenauer, nor Kosovo its Mandela, which is what both so desperately need. The introductory chapter summarising Kosovo's tortured and tortuous history, is better rendered in Noel Malcolm's Kosovo: A Short History , and, for a wider overview of the Balkans themselves, one would certainly prefer Misha Glenny's The Balkans, But for an acerbic and perceptive personal account, Judah's book is hard to beat.
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