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SOME DAMN FOOLISH THING IN THE BALKANS - how Britain, Germany and Austria started World War 1
GAVRILO PRINCIP is famous for Gavrila Princip Street in Belgrade, home to my favourite restaurant Zavičaj's, where I have enjoyed three...
mwalkeristra
Mar 8
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WHY HITLER (AND CHURCHILL) NEEDED BELGRADE
‘”On the morning of Palm Sunday, while children slept their innocent sleep and the church bells were ringing for prayer to God, the...
mwalkeristra
Oct 9, 2023
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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...
mwalkeristra
May 19, 2022
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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...
mwalkeristra
May 14, 2022
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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...
mwalkeristra
May 14, 2022
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