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Tag Archives: travelogue
Croatia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“Politics, always politics. In the middle of the night, when there is a rap on our bedroom door, it is politics.” (Croatia/Zagreb VII) ENDING THE JOURNEY of the previous chapter, Rebecca West and her husband arrive in Zagreb proper. Three … Continue reading
Working Titles (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“I write books to find out about things.” (Paris Review, 1981) FOR THIS PROJECT I have four individual editions of Black Lamb separated in publication by 80 years. More than 25 years ago I started reading the 1994 Penguin Books … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Balkan Ghosts, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Books, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canongate, Capitol Hill Books, Christopher Hitchens, COVID19, Croatia, former Yugoslavia, KFOR, Kindle, Los Angeles Review of Books, Macedonia, NATO, Penguin, Quarantine, Rebecca West, Richard Holbrooke, Robert Kaplan, Serbia, travel books, travelogue, Viking Press, Yugoslavia
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Blogging ‘Black Lamb and Grey Falcon’
“What is Kaimakshalan? A mountain in Macedonia, but where is Macedonia since the Peace Treaty? This part of it is called South Serbia. And where is that, in Czechoslovakia, or in Bulgaria? And what has happened there? The answer is … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Politics and Political Theory, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Austro-Hungarian Empire, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Communism, Croatia, Dalmatia, fascism, former Yugoslavia, Henry Andrews, Macedonia, Rebecca West, Sarajevo, Serbia, Slovenia, travel books, travelogue, World War II, Yugoslavia
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