Requiem for a Country - A History Lesson (Paperback)

A civilian internee of World War II, a fugitive in Rome from 1941-44, a partisan, and a member of Tito's Yugoslav army, the author fought against the German occupation of Yugoslavia. After the war, as a foreign editor of the Belgrade daily, Borba, he covered the 1946 Paris Peace Conference, the 1948 Tito-Stalin rift, and the 1953 Panmunjom talks to end the Korean war. In 1956, as a UN and US correspondent, he resigned over Tito's refusal to support the Hungarian Revolution, sought and was granted political asylum in the US. During the period the author was a foreign editor of Borba from 1946-53, he wrote several books in his native Serbo-Croatian. His first title written in English was a 2009 memoir, The Last Exile. Requiem for a Country is about the destruction of Sephardic life in Bosnia, as well as about the dissolution of what used to be a harmonious coexistence of multiethnic people of Yugoslavia. It is an easy reading selection to bring to the beach or savor in front of a fireplace. It is at the same time an informative book a history professor would assign to stimulate research and discussion in a course on Eastern Europe, racial laws in Italy, WWII, and the cold war.

General

Imprint:	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2012
First published:	February 2012
Editors:	Julia Petrakis
Illustrators:	Lisa Walsh • Kristel Comai
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-1-4699-7498-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4699-7498-3
Barcode:	9781469974989

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