{"product_id":"requiem-for-a-country-julia-petrakis-9781469974989","title":"Requiem for a Country: A History Lesson","description":"A civilian internee of World War II, a fugitive in Rome from 1941-44, a partisan, and a member of Tito's Yugoslav army, the author fought against the German occupation of Yugoslavia. After the war, as a foreign editor of the Belgrade daily, Borba, he covered the 1946 Paris Peace Conference, the 1948 Tito-Stalin rift, and the 1953 Panmunjom talks to end the Korean war. In 1956, as a UN and US correspondent, he resigned over Tito's refusal to support the Hungarian Revolution, sought and was granted political asylum in the US. During the period the author was a foreign editor of Borba from 1946-53, he wrote several books in his native Serbo-Croatian. His first title written in English was a 2009 memoir, The Last Exile. Requiem for a Country is about the destruction of Sephardic life in Bosnia, as well as about the dissolution of what used to be a harmonious coexistence of multiethnic people of Yugoslavia. It is an easy reading selection to bring to the beach or savor in front of a fireplace. It is at the same time an informative book a history professor would assign to stimulate research and discussion in a course on Eastern Europe, racial laws in Italy, WWII, and the cold war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Petrakis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469974983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469974989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d","brand":"Julia Petrakis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48439291609343,"sku":"9781469974989","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a74be12e-86bb-4dad-903c-5b7eff8dfc4d.jpg?v=1777176703","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/requiem-for-a-country-julia-petrakis-9781469974989","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}