Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans

David Fromkin

Simon and Schuster, 2002 - Current Events - 210 pages

An engrossing, clear-eyed look at the conflict in Kosovo and what it reveals about the limits of America's power to shape the world and impose democratic and humane values in countries under the control of ruthless dictators. 4 maps.

Contents

• Maps: 1
• A View from Kosovo: 11
• 2: 24
• America Survives Both Enemies and Allies: 35
• Measuring Americas Greatness: 49
• II: 58
• 24: 65
• East and West Shape the Balkans: 83
• The Middle East Shapes the Balkans: 89
• The Two Hundred Years Crisis: 96
• The Balkan Wars Erupt: 104
• Redrawing the Map and Starting Over: 115
• Wilsons Principles in Action: 121
• The Balkan Peace Settlement of 1920: 132
• The Attack on Yugoslavia: 141
• Returning to the Scene of the Crime: 149
• Kosovo or Kosova?: 158
• Imposing a New World Order: 171
• A Humanitarian Solution: 180
• Frontiers That Cannot Be Crossed: 193
• 35: 197
• Bibliography: 200

About the author

David Henry Fromkin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 27, 1932. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. He worked as a lawyer and investor until becoming a published author in his 40s and a professor in his 60s. He wrote seven books including The Question of Government: An Inquiry into the Breakdown of Modern Political Systems; A Peace to End All Peace; In the Time of the Americans: F.D.R., Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur - the Generation that Changed America's Role in the World; Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans; Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?; and The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners. He was a professor at Boston University from 1994 until 2013. He died from heart failure on June 11, 2017 at the age of 84.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans; Touchstone book
• Author: David Fromkin
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2002
• ISBN: 0684869535, 9780684869537
• Length: 210 pages
• Subjects: Current Events / American; Current Events / Political; History / Europe / Baltic States; History / Europe / Eastern; History / Military / General; History / United States / 20th Century