White Eagles Over Serbia

by Lawrence Durrell

Book Overview

Methuen, a seasoned survivor of countless spy missions thrust upon him by the Old Etonians running the Awkward Shop (as the British Secret Service was called), feels he needs a respite from it all. He... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571064035
• ISBN13: 9780571064038
• Release Date: January 1957
• Publisher: Criterion Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Rollicking Spy Story

Durrell's 1957 espionage classic is just as fresh and exciting as ever. Methuen, intrepid British secret service veteran, tramps about the mountains of southern Serbia in search of the White Eagles, a band of rebels to Tito's regime who support the long-deposed Yugoslav royal family and have come across a great secret. Lovers of the spy genre will enjoy this book immensely. Those interested in the Balkans will revel in Durrell's descriptions of the landscape and people of Serbia. The White Eagles do exist, in fact a modern incarnation was a paramilitary band responsible for much terror and mayhem in Bosnia in the 1992-5 war.