Black Lamb and Grey Falcon 2007

Where to read

Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.

“We spent the night at Salzburg, and in the morning we had time to visit the house where Mozart was born, and look at his little spinet, which has keys that are brown and white instead of white and black.”

Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for *The Times,* the *New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph* and *The New Republic,* and she was a correspondent for *The Bookman.* Her major works include *Black Lamb and Grey Falcon* (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; *A Train of Powder* (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in *The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason* (first published as a magazine article in 1945 and then expanded to the book in 1947), later *Th