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Elegy for Kosovo 
Ismail Kadare 
translated by Peter Constantine 
Arcade, $17.95, 121 pp. 
 
Kosovo 
War and Revenge 
Tim Judah 
Yale University Press, $16.99, 288 pp. 
 
Virtual War 
Kosovo and Beyond 
Michael Ignatieff 
Henry Holt, $23, 246 pp. 
 
Kosovo 
A Short History 
Noel Malcolm 
HarperCollins, $16.99, 494 pp. 

At the heart of his masterful Elegy for Kosovo, the Albanian fabulist Ismail Kadare places the poignant tale of two fourteenth-century minstrels joined in flight. Their epic journey follows the defeat of the massed Christian armies of southeastern Europe by the ...