![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The character of "Constantine" is supposedly based on Stanislav Vinaver. The book's epigraph reads: "To my friends in Yugoslavia, who are now all dead or enslaved". Publication of the book coincided with the Nazi Invasion of Yugoslavia, and West added a foreword highly praising the Yugoslavs for their brave defiance of Germany. West's objective was "to show the past side by side with the present it created". The book is over 1,100 pages in modern editions and gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography during West's six-week trip to Yugoslavia in 1937. First US edition Cover art shows the Stari Most bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and HerzegovinaÄĞlack Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia is a travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941 in two volumes by Macmillan in the UK and by The Viking Press in the US. ![]()
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