When Dreams Collide is Nicholas Allan's intimate pilgrimage across
the former states of Yugoslavia. Shedding the received knowledge of
headlines, he explores the splintered co-evolution of these lands
over the last ten centuries, guided by the inimitable Rebecca
West's masterpiece, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Written 80 years in
the past, West's account serves as a fascinating reference for the
optimistic interwar years of the 20th century between the Ottoman
decline and the Nazi onset. The evolving balancing act of Tito's
Yugoslav experiment and the atrocities following its break-up were
still to come. Collapsing empires and proud young nations,
monasteries and mosques, brotherhood, hatred, war, music, frescoes,
food, costume, people, mountains, rivers and seas, the distant
rumbles of the centuries take many forms. At a turning point in his
own life, Allan is drawn to explore this complex area, through the
lens of his part Eastern European heritage. He records personal
encounters and richly drawn characters interwoven with history and
art, politics and religion (too often one and the same). Enhanced
with delightful hand-drawn maps of the Balkans including
Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, and Croatia. 73 informative photograph's showing some
the areas key historical figures including Ibrahim Rugova, Hitler,
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Tito, Draza Mihailovic, Slobodan
Milosevic, Alecksandar Vucic, Alija Izetbegovic, Radovan Karadzic,
Ante Pavelic, Franjo Tudjman, and Fitzroy Maclean.
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