TITO’S WAR CAVE
‘Despite his experiences at Drvar, Tito had not lost his liking for caves,’ wrote Fitzroy Maclean, Churchill’s liaison officer with the...
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Margaret
Walker
Author of historical fiction
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- Mar 6
1941 The Year That Keeps Returning by Slavko Goldstein.
I’ve always marvelled at the audacity of the Croatian priesthood pushing to canonize Aloysius Stepinac, knowing the crimes of the WW2...
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- Feb 18
My First Flying Lesson OR Writing the Great Aviation Novel
Having a flying lesson was next on my bucket list. ‘You could have a new career as a drug courier,’ said my brother when I told him....
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- Dec 18, 2022
JASENOVAC CONCENTRATION CAMP AND ISTRIA
Here is my photograph of the Partisan cenotaph in Tar, Istria, the village my mother was born in. Her family name was Mikatović. They...
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- Nov 15, 2022
ISTARSKA KUHINJA - Istrian Cuisine
Foreword by Milan Rakovac 1982, translated by Margaret Walker Food! – what and when to eat it and how to prepare it, and in Istria that...
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- Nov 1, 2022
BOSNIA, POWER AND MOB MENTALITY
Some years ago, I was chatting at work with an Arab woman from Egypt when the topic of democracy came up. ‘Arabs can’t do democracy,’ she...
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- Oct 16, 2022
BOSNIA AND THE LUST FOR POWER
My father was Irish, English and German. My mother had Italian, Venetian, Slovenian and Croatian/Montenegrin grandparents. After World...
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- Sep 26, 2022
THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE - using dreams and visions in my novels.
Should the paranormal pay you an unexpected visit – and it will always be unexpected – try to see it as an opportunity. Frightening...
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- Sep 7, 2022
HOW TO TRANSLATE A POEM
Know your grammar. What is grammar? Grammar explains how a sentence is constructed. I started Latin when I was twelve. There was a lot of...
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- Aug 25, 2022
A PREHISTORIC CONTROVERSY IN YUGOSLAVIA – and you thought the paparazzi had no conscience.
Why had I never heard of the Vinča culture centred in Serbia and its developing writing system that predated Cuneiform by 2000 years?...
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- Aug 2, 2022
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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- Jul 19, 2022
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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- Jul 2, 2022
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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- Jun 11, 2022
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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- Jun 6, 2022
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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- May 19, 2022
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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- May 16, 2022
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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- May 16, 2022
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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- May 14, 2022
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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- May 14, 2022
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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