The Spectator, May 22nd, 2004
A short-lived royal adventure KING ZOG, SELF-MADE MONARCH OF ALBANIA by Jason Tomes Sutton, £20, pp. 312, ISBN 0750930772
Jason Tomes' excellent book charts the rise and fall of Albania's only king. Of perhaps greater interest is the story it tells of this Ottoman outpost's late essay into statehood. Overrun by seven foreign armies during the first world war, Albania was always under threat of being carved up among it neighbours. Ahmed Zogu can be credited with successfully manipulating Italian-Serbian rivalry, and earning Albania 20 years' independence, of a sort.
Zogu began his career as ...
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