content: Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is really a masterpiece of the "deep map" genre, which incorporates into her travel narrative the insightful retelling of Balkan history.Sadly, her bias against Austrians and Germans and her reliance on scholarship that has proved faulty in recent years undermine some of the factual side, but somehow facts aren't the only key to understanding in this case. Her narrative illustrations of the assasination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo and the attentat that killed King Alexander and Queen Draga in Belgrade are some of the most amazing prose written, whether you view her version as fact or fiction or somewhere in between.West is a marvelous storyteller, especially when the story -- in some form -- took place, making this worth a look, even if it's only to read through sections of specific interest.