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Requiem for a Country: A History Lesson

Requiem for a Country: A History Lesson

Comai, Kristel
Petrakis, Julia
Walsh, Lisa

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ISBN10: 1469974983
ISBN13: 9781469974989
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Feb 6 2012
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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