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#beginswith #black It took me a long time to find a copy . 1150 pages & considered one of the most significant nonfiction books of the 20th century.Sometimes it‘s the thrill of the hunt ! It‘s been on the TBR for ages .
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia | 
#beginswith #black It took me a long time to find a copy . 1150 pages & considered one of the most significant nonfiction books of the 20th century.Sometimes it‘s the thrill of the hunt ! It‘s been on the TBR for ages .
#BookSpinBingo update! So 3 weeks in and I'm sensing that October might be a dud.
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pickThis book is so good. It is amazingly well written and it gives an incredibly detailed history of the Yugoslavs. So good.
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pickRebecca West and her husband visited Yugoslavia after WWI. Weary and cynical of human nature and the political powers of Austria and Germany, West and her husband toured the breadth of Yugoslavia. While bumping into the fissures of Croat, Serbian, Bulgarian, Turks, and Montenegrins that would eventually lead to the next genocide, West did a creditable, if somewhat romanticized, story of the history of these citizens of an ever shifting country.
Little hellion just ripped out one of my tabs!
But this was far from being the only sop offered by the Republic to that disagreeable appetite, the desire of a human being to feel contempt for another not in fact very different from himself.
The beautiful writing of Rebecca West.
The belief that at one time men changed their temperaments to suit their jobs instead of changing the job to suit their temperaments, I find intriguing, even if I don‘t totally believe it. The kidnapping of people to force them into being bishops and administrators I just find amusing!
I enjoy this Author‘s voice so much!
This book was constantly being referenced in another book so I found a copy to read...
For that magical time you go to San Diego, drink craft beer on 5th Avenue in Hillcrest, and proceed to buy all the books at the used bookstores.... #Savethefloorjoists
"Honour often seems a highly artificial convention, but life in any level of society where it has been abandoned astonishes by its tortuousness."
