The Kosova Liberation Army: Underground War to Balkan Insurgency, 1948-2001 (Columbia/Hurst)

In the struggle against Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia, the Kosova Liberation Army evolved from a tiny group of conspirators operating out of the 1980s Swiss political underground into an 18,000-strong military force allied with NATO in 1997.

In this groundbreaking history, James Pettifer traces the development of the KLA using previously unknown documents from Russian, American, Serbian, Swiss, and other archival sources; numerous interviews with participants and observers; and other eyewitness accounts. He demonstrates how the KLA drew on deep historical traditions of resistance to Serbian rule in Kosova, and in other respects, forged an innovative, postmodern path that relied on its media image as much as its campaign achievements.