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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Rebecca West

Form
Form Travel Writing
Year
Year 1941
Pages
Pages 1180

A writer travels through Yugoslavia on the eve of the Second World War, and uses everything she sees there, from Roman ruins to a sacrificed lamb, to work out why Europe keeps choosing violence over peace.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Rebecca West

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