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Ciro Esposito cirox — This will take a while. I spent nearly 7 months reading Black Lamb and Grey Falcon once I finally started it. It's worth it. Rebecca West may go on for pages about things that might not interest you all that much, describing church architecture, but this book is also full of interesting stories and observations and gems of writing. West can be one of the best prose stylists I've ever read, perhaps the greatest female writer I can think of (I do spend more time reading books by men). A sampling of the best quotes will be collected here as room allows. What makes the book absolutely fascinating is when it was written - in the late 1930s. Rebecca West is a woman of strong opinions, while she finds qualities to love in the Serbians above all and in the other peoples of Yugoslavia, she haranges against the Habsburgs' empire (with the exception of kind words for Empress Sissy) and the Ottomans, as well as the Germans that she meets in the Balkans, Hitler and Mussolini. Most passionately in the "Old Serbia" chapter 800 pages in, she visits Blackbird Field in Kosovo where the Turks defeated the Serbs in 1389 and decries the decision of the Serbian leader, according to a saga, to choose a kingdom of heaven rather than a kingdom on Earth, and accept the defeat and destruction of his people - she sees here a preference to be the sacrificial lamb rather than the one who kills the lamb, repeated over the centuries, in Franz Ferdinand's "eager" victimhood as he visits Sarajevo in 1914, in Britain and France's refusal to stand up to Hitler until it is too late, if at all, in her fellow progressives of Western Europe. This is her essential thesis, and it is pounded home in the conclusion which moves beyond her journeys to Yugoslavia in 1938 at the latest to describe the last 2 years of earth-shaking history including the conquests of Yugoslavia and France. The book contains multitudes and much wisdom, despite its biases (one of the reasons I did not take this book to Turkey with me, other than its weight, is West's anti-Islam bent). This is enough review, I heartily recommend the book if you think you have the interest and time, it will reward you. But most of you will never read the whole thing, even if you read this, so here's a sampling of the best of it: (to follow)

Khalid Henaidy khenaidy54bc — he Good Stuff * Wonderfully well researched * Fascinating historical information * Learned a lot about Matilda, that I had never known before. Ok most of the stuff I "know" about her came from the novel Pillars of the Earth * Powerful women taking charge and flouting male authority * Insightful commentary on both modern and historical female figures * Extremely thorough in historical detail The Not so Good Stuff * Way too scholarly for day to day reading, but a great text for historical information, written in a fascinating way * Very, very dry at times and a little confusing Favorite Quotes/Passages "I know I have the body of a weak and feeble women, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too - Queen Elizabeth 1, 1588" What I Learned * Fascinating historical information of lesser known female rulers * Way too many interesting tidbits about British history to mention * I always thought that Henry VIII's son, Edward VI, was a weakling all his life Who should/shouldn't read * This is definitely more for the educated scholar than to someone like me * Wonderful resource for high school and public libraries, as it makes history come alive 3 Dewey's I received this from HarperCollins in exchange for an honest review -- sorry guys this one was way over my head

Magdy Mahmoud _agdy_ly — If you liked The Shadow of the Wind or Angels and Demons/Da Vinci Code you will definitely like this book. Its complicated, engrossing, and completely envelopes you as you are reading.