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    THE OTHER AUSCHWITZ
    mwalkeristra
    • Aug 2

    THE OTHER AUSCHWITZ

    The concentration camps of World War 2 hold a macabre grip over the modern imagination. Books on the topic sell in their millions....
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    How I Met My Birth Mother, Part 2.
    mwalkeristra
    • Jul 19

    How I Met My Birth Mother, Part 2.

    When I was born in Sydney in 1960, my grandfather, like many Australians his age, called Yugoslavs Balts. Even though Yugoslavia was...
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    AUNTIE DULCIE AND THE MIKATOVIĆ MYSTERY
    mwalkeristra
    • Jul 2

    AUNTIE DULCIE AND THE MIKATOVIĆ MYSTERY

    My husband’s Auntie Dulcie was a dedicated family historian. No one joined dots like she did. Whenever we visited her, she would proudly...
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    ISTRIAN COOKING IN THE 1920’s – from my birth mother’s memoirs.
    mwalkeristra
    • Jun 11

    ISTRIAN COOKING IN THE 1920’s – from my birth mother’s memoirs.

    Istria may have been prized by Venice, France, Italy, Austria and Yugoslavia, but it was not a wealthy region. Marcus Tanner, in his...
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    How I Met My Birth Mother
    mwalkeristra
    • Jun 6

    How I Met My Birth Mother

    My birth mother Silvana from Istria died in 2020 aged ninety-nine years, nine months and three-quarters. She outlived all her...
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    Can You Write a Novel If You Have Big Feet?
    mwalkeristra
    • May 19

    Can You Write a Novel If You Have Big Feet?

    How many women do you know who commence an historical novel based on their shoe size? Or their head circumference? Or their height? When...
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    HIJACKING THE TIME MACHINE
    mwalkeristra
    • May 16

    HIJACKING THE TIME MACHINE

    'Truth and memory [are] exceedingly fragile,’ writes Deborah Lipstadt in Denying the Holocaust, the Growing Assault on Truth and Memory....
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    MURDER FROM THE PULPIT?
    mwalkeristra
    • May 16

    MURDER FROM THE PULPIT?

    The BALKAN ESSAYS of Hubert Butler The Irish Pages Press, 2016 I bought Hubert Butler’s Balkan Essays specifically to read The Artuković...
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    NOT THE YUGOSLAVS I REMEMBER
    mwalkeristra
    • May 14

    NOT THE YUGOSLAVS I REMEMBER

    Hats off to Slovenian author Goran Vojnović! I have just finished reading his best-selling novel Yugoslavia, My Fatherland which he...
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    CHETNIKS versus PARTISANS
    mwalkeristra
    • May 14

    CHETNIKS versus PARTISANS

    IRREGULAR ADVENTURE by Christie Lawrence BOOK REVIEW This absorbing book must rate as the greatest war story never heard of. It is the...
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    A TOUR OF YUGOSLAVIA 1985 - Belgrade and Sarajevo.
    mwalkeristra
    • May 14

    A TOUR OF YUGOSLAVIA 1985 - Belgrade and Sarajevo.

    Friday 10th May Greek trains are dreadful. From experience I can tell you that the Hellas Express was not a patch on the Vienna Express...
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    Poems of World War 2 - Josip Cazi and the Yugoslav Partisans
    mwalkeristra
    • May 14

    Poems of World War 2 - Josip Cazi and the Yugoslav Partisans

    THE MEETING by Josip Cazi On rainy evenings we used to walk through the muddy factory town beside the Danube, Jelice, my blue-eyed girl -...
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    The Yugoslav Partisans and the Poems of Anđelka Martić
    mwalkeristra
    • May 14

    The Yugoslav Partisans and the Poems of Anđelka Martić

    At the beginning of the twentieth century, two opposing political movements emerged from the fall of the old empires: the extreme right...
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    Whatever happened to Slovenian Trieste?
    mwalkeristra
    • May 14

    Whatever happened to Slovenian Trieste?

    By what convoluted route did an Australian come to write an historical novel about Slovenian Trieste? It’s a long story. Asking my birth...
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    Now You Can Blog from Everywhere
    mwalkeristra
    • May 14

    Now You Can Blog from Everywhere

    We’ve made it quick and convenient for you to manage your blog from anywhere. In this blog post, we’ll share the ways you can post to...
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    Design a Beautiful Blog
    mwalkeristra
    • May 14

    Design a Beautiful Blog

    When it comes to design, the Wix Blog has everything you need to create beautiful posts that will grab your reader's attention. Check out...
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    Grow Your Blog Community
    mwalkeristra
    • May 14

    Grow Your Blog Community

    With Wix Blog, you’re not only sharing your voice with the world, you can also grow an active online community. To let readers sign up...
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