Description: Kosovo Liberation Army Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The Inside Story of an Insurgency Author(s): Henry H. Perritt Format: Hardback Publisher: University of Illinois Press, United States Imprint: University of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 9780252033421, 978-0252033421 Synopsis The military intervention by NATO in Kosovo was portrayed in American media as a necessary step to prevent the Serbian armed forces from repeating the ethnic cleansing that had so deeply damaged the former Yugoslavia. Serbia trained its military on Kosovo because of an ongoing armed struggle by ethnic Albanians to wrest independence from Serbia. Warfare in the Balkans seemed to threaten the stability of Europe, as well as the peace and security of Kosovars, and yet armed resistance seemed to offer the only possibility of future stability. Leading the struggle against Serbia was the Kosovo Liberation Army, also known as the KLA. Kosovo Liberation Army: The Inside Story of an Insurgency provides a historical background for the KLA and describes its activities up to and including the NATO intervention. Henry H. Perritt Jr. offers firsthand insight into the motives and organization of a popular insurgency, detailing the strategies of recruitment, training, and financing that made the KLA one of the most successful insurgencies of the post-cold war era. This volume also tells the personal stories of young people who took up guns in response to repeated humiliation by "foreign occupiers," as they perceived the Serb police and intelligence personnel. Perritt illuminates the factors that led to the KLA's success, including its convergence with political developments in eastern Europe, its campaign for popular support both at home and abroad, and its participation in international negotiations and a peace settlement that helped pave the long road from war to peace.
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Book Title: Kosovo Liberation Army
Subject Area: Political Science
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Width: 152 mm
Author: Henry H. Perritt, Jr.
Publication Name: Kosovo Liberation Army: the inside Story of an Insurgency
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Government, History
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
