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Escape From Kosovo

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It must have been difficult to write these events and tell of the atrocities that have gone on in this country. The six o'clock news only told a small portion of the slaughter that really went on. What can we do to ever prevent this from happening again? The book really provokes emotion.

Not many people can understand the concept of having your home bombed, your father killed and not having contact with your family, not knowing if they 'made it out safely' or not. Mr. Berisha shares a very personal story about the difficulties his family and others faced while 800,000 people were forced from their homes during Serbian attack on their country. This book was written 10 years ago, yet this experience is still shaping who Mr. Berisha is today. After the 2008 declaration of Kosova's independence, James began flying to Central and South American countries to raise awareness of and encourage them to officially recognize the country's recent independent status. 'Flying for Kosovo' is yet another way in which Mr. Berisha is trying to give voice to the many people in his country who have endured an experience that most of us could not possibly understand, while at the same time sharing the beauty and history of his country with those of us who have only read about it 'in the news'.
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Thank you for your dedication Mr. Berisha

What a fantastic story from the inside view and the outside view. It is a bit graffic at times but what is to read when it really happened.
I would advise any adult to read this.
I have been to the areas in which he tells the story. So great! A MUST READ!

Dear booklovers, You people who are against the violence and terror, You who see others as themselves, As a human being and as a Kosovar I would like to assure you that Mr & Mrs Berisha wrote this book based (unfortunetaly) upon the true stories.In the best way they could they described the terror the serb "people" did to innocent Albanians (just because they were Albanians),for centuries. This book unfortunetaly is not what we call entertainment read.. It is actually educational as it was written by the blood of thousands and thousands innocent children,pregnant woman,old and usually young people... I said educational because I'm pretty sure that after reading this book you will find out that - 'If you are in dark you can at least see the stars';... With one word you will appreciate for being an American not an Albanian...because this book is true story...because we suffered so much for centuries until people like Deborah and her fellow American fellows fighted with all they possibly could to prevent serb animals killing and burning everything we had ... our loved people,our homes,our parks where we had the memories of childhood,our photographs...our everything.

To begin with,book of this format could hardly be suitable for fine-print bibliography of western media texts that were printed after the end of war,and in an argumentated way,rather than emotional one-that provided evidence that all fallacies used like brainwashing-detergent from some mass media houses were 100% fiction.This book is diary of alleged Serb atrocities toward Albanians,and it evokes crocodile tears."Kosovo" by William Dorich is most reccomended as a most thorough revelation of Albanian chauvinism in land where they injoyed one of highest standards of human rights,yet they had extensive history of genocidal behavior toward's non-albanians of Kosovo,with decades before curent goverment of Yugoslavia.This is propaganda book,with "heartbreaking" fallacies,that even if they were true-and they are not,as many Western observers had confirmed-are lacking the quality and quantity of Serbian's agony in Kosovo in last 300 years-after Albanians were settled there by the Turks