{"product_id":"kosovo-a-short-history-by-noel-malcolm-2002","title":"Kosovo a Short History by Noel Malcolm (2002)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #00ae5f;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat - Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition -Good, wear to cover, some foxing to edges - see images \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #00ae5f;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSynopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKosovo, a 55-mile-long plateau south of Serbia bordering Albania \u0026amp; Macedonia, should by all rights be a historical \u0026amp; political backwater. A Bulgarian geographer who visited Kosovo during WWI remarked it was \"almost as unknown \u0026amp; inaccessible as a stretch of land in Central Africa.\" The observation would prove ironically fitting by the '90s, as Central Africa \u0026amp; Kosovo both became sites of widespread genocide, fuelled by ethnic hatreds, of the deepest international significance. Noel Malcolm, British historian \u0026amp; journalist who's written extensively about the Balkans (including a companion volume of sorts on Bosnia), provides an overview of Kosovo's long-standing cultural divisions in his \"short history.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books and Crannies Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58190121992575,"sku":null,"price":2.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0602\/3902\/0229\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_70fb8af7-ed4c-4459-bf5a-817d48b3635f.jpg?v=1786894922","url":"https:\/\/booksandcrannies.co.uk\/products\/kosovo-a-short-history-by-noel-malcolm-2002","provider":"Books and Crannies Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}