num_pages: 89
description: On 28 June, 1389, a Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians was defeated by an Ottoman army. The battle was over in ten hours. But ever since, the birds of prey have been hovering above the battlefield to pick over the corpses. It was on 28 June, 1989, that the Serb Leader Slobodan Milosevic launched his campaign for a fresh massacre of the majority population of Kosovo, the Albanians. That was the day on which Yugoslavia began its process of implosion and post-War western Europe was first revisited by the barbarity of earlier epochs.The agony of one tiny population at the close of the 20th Century is the symptom of a sickness that European civilisation has carried in its bloodstream for a thousand years.
language: English
title: Three Elegies for Kosovo
titlecomplete: Three Elegies for Kosovo
characters: Lazar Hrebeljanović, Murad I, Slobodan Milošević
genres: Historical, Short Stories, European History, Novella, War, Albanian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 926
places: Kosovo
publisher: Random House