“Here in Mostar the really adventurous part of our journey began.” HERZEGOVINA, LIKE DALMATIA, is an historical region in the… READ MORE
“There was everywhere the sweet-smelling scrub, and thickets of oleander, and the grey-blue swords of aloes; and on the lower… READ MORE
“But these people’s culture instructed them exactly how best they might live where they must live.” BY TRAIN REBECCA West… READ MORE
“Politics, always politics. In the middle of the night, when there is a rap on our bedroom door, it is… READ MORE
“These were exactly like all Aryan Germans I had ever known; and there were sixty millions of them in the… READ MORE
“And the death of Elizabeth had shown me the scourge of the world after the war, Luccheni, Fascism, the rule… READ MORE
“He does not so much split his infinitives as disembowel them.” (Rebecca West on Dr. Lionel Tayler, The Clarion, 1913) … READ MORE
“My dear, I know I have inconvenienced you terribly by making you take your holiday now, and I know you… READ MORE
“To look at it is good; to stand on it is as good.” (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon) THE COVER… READ MORE
“I write books to find out about things.” (Paris Review, 1981) FOR THIS PROJECT I have four individual editions of… READ MORE
“In short, unwilling to coerce the parties into negotiations, the international community has abnegated its responsibility to change the political dynamics in order to drive the combatants to the table.”
Author, critic, translator, former NATO International Staff, ex-diplomat