Beyond The Speeches And Newsreels, Historians And Journalists Try To Shed Light On The Causes Of Violence In Kosovo.
By Gregory McNamee
Kosovo: A Short History, by Noel Malcolm (New York
University Press). Cloth, $28.95.
Between Serb and Albanian: A Short History of Kosovo,
by Miranda Vickers (Columbia University Press). Paper, $18.50.
THE YUGOSLAV nation lasted for a mere 73 years, about the
life span of an average person in the developed world, roughly
coinciding with what historians have called the short 20th
century from the onset of World War I to the end of the
Cold War. And when the tenuously constructed nation of Yugoslavia