Requiem for a Country

A civilian internee of World War II a fugitive in Rome from 1941-44 a partisan and a member of Titos 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 Titos refusal to support the Hungarian Revolution sought and was granted political asylum in the US. 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.