The Kosova Liberation Army: Underground War to Balkan Insurgency,1948-2001

摘要

James Pettifer is the doyen of British commentators on Albania and Albanians. His books (written in collaboration with Miranda Vickers) on the history of Albania are the standard works. He has now turned his attention and considerable skills to writing an account of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an organisation which has awaited a good history in English for far too long. There is much to learn here, and this reviewer has no doubt whatsoever that the Serbian intelligence service will have bought a job lot. Whilst no one could deny that it is sympathetic to the Kosovar cause, Pettifer sticks to his brief: the book is about the KLA, not the iniquities of Serbia.