Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
"Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" (ISBN 0-14-018847-9) is an 1,181-page travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941.
The book gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography, and the significance of Nazism, structured about her six week trip to Yugoslavia in 1937.
It made the Random House Modern Library list of the best 100 non-fiction books of the 20th century. [http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnonfiction.html]
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