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Kosovo War Poetry
Insight into this little understood war
Kosovo War Poetry by David Roberts
What the Kosovo war was about
Kosovo is the Serbs’ ancient homeland (as the 600-year-old Christian churches testify). Serbs and Albanians lived in relative harmony for many decades, in the Kosovo region of Serbia, until a little before 1999 when violent extremists agitated for Albanians to be independent of Serbia.
Inter-ethnic violence broke out and NATO countries, in support of the Albanian separatists, in a clear act of aggression, bombed Serb civilian infrastructure and just a few military targets.
This bombing effectively destroyed the Serbian economy. It inflicted massive and long-term economic damage and caused great social distress. It was also a provocation and challenge to Russia as Serbia was within Russia's Sphere of influence.
What the poems are about
The poetry explores the human, military and philosophical dimensions. Includes the widely studied Pilot’s Testament.
Kosovo War Poetry
60 pages Paperback 7” x 4.5”
ISBN 0952 8969 2 3
Saxon Books
£4.99