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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 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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- May 14, 2022
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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- May 14, 2022
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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- May 14, 2022
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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