Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cicily Isabel Fairfield
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Work: Travel writing
- Principal Characters: Rebecca West, Henry Andrews, Constantine, Gerda
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, Politics, History, Sociology
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Politics, Europe or Europeans, Marriage, World War II, 1930’s, War, Assassination, World War I, Anthropology or anthropologists, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Peasantry or peasants, Yugoslavia or Yugoslavians, Debates or debating
- Locales: Yugoslavia
The Story:
Rebecca West had not seen Yugoslavia until 1936 when she made a lecture tour in that country; it impressed her so greatly that she decided to travel throughout the country as a tourist in 1937. She also felt that it was important to know something of the country because of the effect it might have upon world politics after the death of its king, Alexander, in 1937. It had been of great importance twenty-three years before, when the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo had precipitated a world conflict.
The author and her husband entered Yugoslavia by...
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