Laughter Under the Gallows. Everything You Wanted Not to Know About the War in Kosovo
Laughter Under the Gallows. Everything You Wanted Not to Know About the War in Kosovo

Author(s): Rade Radovanović
Contributor(s): Vuk Tošić (Translator)
Subject(s): History, Military history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Peace and Conflict Studies, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: KruZak
Keywords: disintegration; war; Second Yugoslavia; Balkan warfare; “Serbian–global war”; conflict; bombing of infrastructure; “final solution”; ethnic cleansing; criminal campaigns; criminal regime; Milošević; Vučić;
Summary/Abstract: This book examines the collapse of the Second Yugoslavia through the lens of the 1999 conflict often described here as the “Serbian–global war.” After a decade of violent disintegration across the former Yugoslav space, Serbia ultimately provoked a U.S.- and NATO-led military intervention—an operation carried out as a precise, overwhelming deployment of force. At the same time, Milošević’s regime pursued the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians, seeking to complete its own “final solution” even as the bombing continued. Avoiding conventional political or sociological analysis, the author offers a powerful investigative and dramaturgically structured narrative that exposes the personal, collective, and societal devastation produced by a politics of criminal war. While the regime was militarily stopped, its underlying ideology survived—continuing to fuel dreams of conquest and future conflict. Rade Radovanović is a journalist and playwright, co-founder of the daily DANAS, and a longtime correspondent for major European and international media.

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