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
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In the morning of 7 October 1571, at the mouth of the gulf between mainland Greece and the Peloponnese, the fleets of the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League clashed in the last great battle between oared fighting ships. By four o¿clock that afternoon the sea was red with blood. The Muslims lost 230 out of their 277 warships and about 20,000 men. It was the first time in over a century that Christians had successfully taken the offensive against them.
In this important new history, Hugh Bicheno describes the clash of cultures that led to one of the greatest turning-point battles in history, As a description of the age-old conflict between Christianity and Islam, it is a story which still resonates today.