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mwalkeristra
Oct 9, 2023
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...
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mwalkeristra
Aug 7, 2023
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...
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mwalkeristra
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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mwalkeristra
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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mwalkeristra
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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mwalkeristra
May 16, 2022
MURDER FROM THE PULPIT?
The BALKAN ESSAYS of Hubert Butler The Irish Pages Press, 2016 I bought Hubert Butler’s Balkan Essays specifically to read The Artuković...
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mwalkeristra
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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mwalkeristra
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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