Okay - I am in possession of Noel Malcom's book "Kosovo: A Short History." I got a used copy through Amazon for 12 bucks, but when it got here, it didn't look used at all.
                I didn't check sources, but the scholarship looks to be impeccable. There is a glossary and 43 pages of references.
                This volume has a preface that is dated later than the date of original publication, so this must be a more recent edition.

                The first thing I did was to turn to the later chapters, chapters that bear on the issues that have been discussed in this thread. Then I went back to the front and started reading the book in its entirety. I don't have a lot of time to read right now, so I'm only about 1/4 to 1/3 of the way through.

                The way the problems play out as they relate to the discussion put forward by various posters to this point, I would say much of it depends on one's point of view. To date, I've come away with an understanding--rightly or wrongly--that the provence of Kosovo has been a kind of "political football" that has been kicked back and forth between Serbia and Albania for a very long time.

                Shimrod and others were right to point out that there are no easy solutions here, but to try to make the case that one side or the other is totally right, or totally wrong, I think would be very hard to do.