black lamb and grey falcon a journey through yugoslavia

It was within this type of context that she framed the battle between the Serbs (Light) and the Turks (Darkness). Augustine led her to a fascination with Manichaeanism, the doctrine that the universe is a battleground between equal, contending forces of Light and Darkness. Wells in 1912, and had a son Anthony West. The world's perception of today's tragedy in Yugoslavia has been deeply colored by a book that one of West's friends characterized as 'not so much a book about Yugoslavia as a book about Rebecca West.' West's father left the family when she was very young, and her attitudes towards men have been deeply affected by that rejection. The moral argument that West had fashioned for fighting evil aggression, instead of supporting pacifist inaction, became the center of the debate in the West once again. Then came 1991 and the war in Yugoslavia, and West's book once again became widely sold and used as a source for journalists and politicians. The book was very well received and after the war, it became legendary, but not widely read. Rebecca West wrote her masterpiece on Yugoslavia, 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon' during World War II she believed that the war's source lay in Yugoslavia's history of conflict between the Serbs and the Croats and Bosnian Muslims (Turks). LIFE AND LETTERS about writer Rebecca West and the war in Yugoslavia.

Black lamb and grey falcon a journey through yugoslavia