![]() Collapsing empires and proud young nations, monasteries and mosques, brotherhood, hatred, war, music, frescoes, food, costume, people, mountains, rivers and seas, the distant rumbles of the centuries take many forms.Īt a turning point in his own life, Allan is drawn to explore this complex area, through the lens of his part Eastern European heritage. The evolving balancing act of Tito’s Yugoslav experiment and the atrocities following its break-up were still to come. ![]() Written 80 years in the past, West’s account serves as a fascinating reference for the optimistic interwar years of the 20th century between the Ottoman decline and the Nazi onset. Shedding the received knowledge of headlines, he explores the splintered co-evolution of these lands over the last ten centuries, guided by the inimitable Rebecca West’s masterpiece, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. ![]() When Dreams Collide is Nicholas Allan’s intimate pilgrimage across the former states of Yugoslavia. ![]()
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