"Amid conflict, historians are needed to explain the complex roots of strife"
N JUNE 1989, SERBIAN PRESIDENT SLOBODAN Milošević delivered a speech at Gazimestan, a monument near the town of Kosovo Polje standing close to the site known as the Field of Blackbirds. This watchtower, not far from Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, marks the site of the battle of Kosovo – an event that occupies