May 1941
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Articles
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V
‘Violence was indeed all I knew of the Balkans,’ writes Rebecca West, ‘all I knew of the South Slavs. And since there proceeds steadily from the southeastern corner of Europe a stream of events which are a danger to me, which indeed for years threatened my safety and deprived me forever of many benefits, that is to say I know nothing of my own destiny. The Balkan Peninsula was only two or three days distant, yet I had never troubled to go that short journey, which might explain to me how I shall die, and why.’ So it was that in 1937 Rebecca West, with her husband, set out to explore the Balkans, and particularly Yugoslavia, to see for herself why the fate of the Continent and of England has so often been threatened by the Powderkeg of Europe. The story she brought back with her annihilates distance, and touches every thoughtful reader.
In This Our Life
Toward a Philosophy of History
Lanterns on the Levee
Quest
What Makes Sammy Run?
Turkey
What I Believe
Call the New World
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Diplomat Between Wars
Long Meadows
And What's More
The Hero in America
Riddle of the Reich
Amiel
Hudson Valley Squire
Home by the River
The Listening Landscape
Crusader in Crinoline
Axis America
The Contributors' Column
A New Doctrine for the Americas
Hands Off: A History of the Monroe Doctrine
The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
How America Lives
Two Alone
I Find Treason
'All Gaul Is Divided'
Sir Richard Burton's Wife: The Gypsy's Prophecy
Invasion of England
Winant of New Hampshire
Labor and the War
To a Daughter, One Year Lost: From Her Father
First Snow
Confession
Never the Dawn
Warning
Caboose
The Next Harvard
