Volume 24, Number 12 · July 14, 1977

The Precarious Country

By William Shawcross

BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE

British Policy Towards Wartime Resistance in Yugoslavia and Greece
edited by Phyllis Auty, edited by Richard Clogg

Barnes and Noble/Harper & Row, 308 pp., $23.50

Tito, Mihailovic and The Allies, 1941-1945
by Walter R. Roberts

Rutgers University Press, 424 pp., $19.50

British Policy in South-East Europe in the Second World War
by Elisabeth Barker

Barnes and Noble/Harper & Row, 320 pp., $27.50

Wartime
by Milovan Djilas

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 470 pp., $14.95

LX: Memoirs of a Jugoslav
by Vane Ivanovic

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 435 pp., $14.95

The Legitimation of a Revolution, The Yugoslav Case
by Bogdan Denis Denitch

Yale University Press, 272 pp., $15.00

The Yugoslav Experiment 1948-1974
by Dennison Rusinow

University of California Press, 410 pp., $16.50

R.W. Seton-Watson and the Yugoslavs, Correspondence 1906-1941

British Academy and University of Zagreb, 468, vol 2 pp., £10 the set

Nations in Arms: The Theory and Practice of Territorial Defense
by Adam Roberts

Praeger, 288 pp., $18.50

The Belgrade-Bar railway took one hundred years to plan and build. It now joins Serbia to the Adriatic, and clings to the mountains of Montenegro like a tendril. On the night train up from Bar, I was awakened early in the morning by a hand shaking my shoulder; when I opened my eyes I saw, three inches away, a revolver pointed straight between them. Behind it, standing over me, was a man with a sharp face and a long suede overcoat. 'Vi Engliez?' 'Yes.' He waved the gun at me, then laughed at his friend on the top bunk, stood up, slipped the gun into his waistband, and began to comb his hair.



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