Title: Requiem for a Country
Subtitle: 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 1951 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 U.S.  *Requiem for a Country* is a political memoir about the dissolution of what used to be a harmonious coexistence of multiethnic people of Yugoslavia, as well as about the destruction of Sephardic life in Bosnia.
Subjects: World War II, Yugoslavia, Jewish life, Jews, Biography, Yugoslav Jews, Jewish refugees, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Personal narratives, World War, 1939-1945, Politics and government
Places: Sarajevo, Rome, Asolo, Italy
Time periods: World War II to 2011.