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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia is a travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941.
The book is of exceptional length (over 1,100 pages in modern editions). It gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography and the significance of Nazism structured about West's six week trip to Yugoslavia in 1937. West's objective was "to show the past side by side with the present it created".[1] Publication of the book coincided with the Nazi Invasion of Yugoslavia, and West added a foreword highly praising the Yugoslavs for their brave defiance of Germany. The book's epigraph reads: "To my friends in Yugoslavia, who are now all dead or enslaved".[2]
The character of "Constantine" is supposedly based on Stanislav Vinaver.
It made the Random House Modern Library list of the best 100 non-fiction books of the 20th century.
American writer Larry McMurtry says in an essay, "...there are only a few great travel books. Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is one...".
