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Spring Flowers, Spring Frost 1st January 1970

The File on H 1st January 1970

In the 1930’s two American scholars, Parry and Lord, went to Jugoslavia to look at and record local oral poetry, in the hope of understanding how the Homeric epics came to be composed and handed down….. In this book...

The Siege 1st January 1970

In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevitable. Soon enough dust kicked up by...

The Fall of the Stone City 1st January 1970

In September 1943, German soldiers advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokaster, Albania. It is the first step in a carefully planned invasion. But once at the mouth of the city, the troops are taken aback by a surprising...