Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia, (Paperback)

from jonfaith

Hatred comes before love, and gives the hater strange and delicious pleasures, but its works are short-lived; the head is cut from the body before the time of natural death, the lie is told to frustrate the other rogue's plan before it comes to fruit. Sooner or later society tires of making a mos...

from Paulagraph

1150 pages including the Epilogue but not the Bibliography! I read this book for months (I believe I started it in July). Black Lamb and Grey Falcon records a journey taken by West and her husband Paul, a banker, through the former Yugoslavia in 1934. They spend several months investigating Croat...

from languagehat

I give it four stars because it's enthralling and well written; I have to add that her pro-Serbian bias makes the book useless as any kind of objective analysis and pernicious in its influence on policymakers (either directly or through her disciple Robert Kaplan).

from charlie68

Another book not for the faint of heart, 1100 + pages. An account of Ms. West's travels through then Yugoslavia before the Second World War. Combines the history and architecture and the people very well. The darkening shadows of the War is hinted at too.

from statmonkey

Very well worth the read. In some cases the author is bigoted, reductive and just plain wrong in her conclusions. But for a good portion of the book she provides some amazing insights, descriptive phrases and analysis that is totally relevant to today's world. This book is a sad reminder of how c...