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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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HELL HATH NO FURY – the poetry of women Partisans in Yugoslavia 1941 – 1945
‘You who burned my house and killed my child, who shelters beneath a foreign wing, a traitor who accepts a salary from the enemy! Did you...
mwalkeristra
Aug 7, 2023
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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...
mwalkeristra
Dec 18, 2022
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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...
mwalkeristra
Nov 1, 2022
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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...
mwalkeristra
Oct 16, 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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