Black Lamb and Grey Falcon II. (töredék)

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Rebecca West
"One of the most passionate, eloquent, violent, beautifully written books of our time." —Time
BLACjK LAMB AND GREY FALCON A Journey through Yugoslavia .
This monumental work, an adventure through time as well as space, is the record of a pilgrimage made at the end of the 1930s by the author and her husband through the country of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. In thus depicting, on the largest possible scale, one corner of Europe and one segment of the earth's population, Rebecca West brings to life the whole recorded history of Yugoslavia, from Roman times to the eve of the Nazi infiltration, and the racial and cultural past of a tragic and heroic people.
Six years in preparation. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon was com-. pleted in the midst of the bombing of London, as Yugoslavia fell before Hitler's legions. When it was published, in two volumes, in 1941, William L. Shirer hailed it as "the best book to come out of the war"; its extraordinary reception, then... Tovább

Fülszöveg

II
Rebecca West
"One of the most passionate, eloquent, violent, beautifully written books of our time." —Time
BLACjK LAMB AND GREY FALCON A Journey through Yugoslavia .
This monumental work, an adventure through time as well as space, is the record of a pilgrimage made at the end of the 1930s by the author and her husband through the country of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. In thus depicting, on the largest possible scale, one corner of Europe and one segment of the earth's population, Rebecca West brings to life the whole recorded history of Yugoslavia, from Roman times to the eve of the Nazi infiltration, and the racial and cultural past of a tragic and heroic people.
Six years in preparation. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon was com-. pleted in the midst of the bombing of London, as Yugoslavia fell before Hitler's legions. When it was published, in two volumes, in 1941, William L. Shirer hailed it as "the best book to come out of the war"; its extraordinary reception, then and in the years that followed, has made ihe book a classic of its kind. Illustrated with maps
"It tells the story, essentially, of what has happened to our world. In an excitingly new form, in language which is at the same time precise and rich, it is an analysis of our culture, the world of ideas and emotions in which we live." —JOSEPH BARNES
New York Herald Tribune Books
DAME REBECCA WEST, one of England's leading writers, is the author of The Meaning of Treason, as well as several novels, among them The Fountain Overflows.
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