Kosovo War - Literature

Literature

Kosovo, due to its strategical and historical place in the Balkans, has many sources of literature. Some of it is in Albanian due to its predominant ethnic Albanian population and the rest in other languages. There are many books which cover the 1998–1999 Kosovo conflict written by international authors. A few books worthy of mention are:

  • The Dollar and the Gun: theme connected, documentary-based short stories, about or inspired by, the Kosovo war, written by novelist and thinker Shlomo Kalo. Published in Serbia, England, Israel, Greece, Italy, India.
  • Elegy for Kosovo: Stories by Ismail Kadare
  • From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention by David Chandler
  • Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat by Wesley K. Clark
  • Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass
  • The Tenth Circle of Hell (although about Bosnia parallels the situation in Kosovo) by Rezak Hukanovic
  • The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804–1999 by Misha Glenny
  • Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War inside Kosovo By McAllester, Matthew
  • Madness Visible A Memoir of War By Di Giovanni, Janine

and in novels

  • From Bosnia with Love by Javed Mohammed, S: A novel about the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulic.

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