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

by James Pettifer

The Kosova Liberation Army (KLA) was the first successful insurgent movement in Europe since the Second World War. In the struggle against Milosevic's Serbia it developed from a tiny group in the Swiss political underground in the 1980s to an 18,000 strong military force that was allied with NATO between 1997 and 1999. The KLA drew on deep historical traditions of resistance to Serbian rule in Kosova, but in other respects was highly innovative and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849043744
• ISBN13: 9781849043748
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 379 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.5"