'Black Lamb and Gray Hawk', by Rebecca West: a book that no educated person should ignore. This legendary travel book, one of the author's four masterpieces, covers the former Yugoslavia at the time when the subsequent wars that devastated the region was generated.

Cicely Isabel Fairfield (1892-1983), adopted the pseudonym Rebecca West as a tribute to the protagonist of Henrik Ibsen's drama Rosmer House. West's sensitivity and intelligence to then perceive the breeding ground of that terrible conflict that weighs on the West today, is typical of journalism elevated to greatness.