Stephen Graham ALEHANDER OF YUGOSLAVIA The Story of the King who was Murdered at Marseilles New Haven, Yale University Press, 1939. 329 pages, Hardcover. Zaštitni omot iskrzan na krajevima. Požutela na bočnim stranama od trajanja. Unutra dobra, nema podvlačenja, zapisa... In 1929 Stephen Graham visited Yugoslavia planning to write a novel about the terrorists who had assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Jne 1914. He took introductions from Dimitrije Mitrinović who had been on the fringes of the group which carried out the murder. The novel Stephen wrote - St Vitus Day - described the conspiracy leading up to the assassination in almost documentary fashion. It is clear that he had obtained information from Mtrinovic and others on the fringes of the conspiracy. The book was well-reviewed in Britain and translated into Serbo-Croat - winning Stephen many friends in Yugoslavia. Stephen spent much of the 1930s in Yugoslavia, renting a house in the Julian Alps, close to the Austrian border. The appeal was two-fold. Stephen`s finances suffered in the wake of the Wall Street crash - and life in provincial Yugoslavia was comparatively cheap. In the second place, he had met and fallen in love with Dmitrije`s sister Vera. The two of them travelled extensively through Yugoslavia (Stephen was later to write of their experiences in his book The Moving Tent). He also published a novel, Balkan Monastery, describing Vera`s experiences as a young girl in the First World War when she was sent to an orphanage where she faced harsh treatment. Stephen was by the mid 1930s a well-known figure in Yugoslavia, and he was able to interview members of the Royal Family and senior ministers in order to write his book Alexander of Yugoslavia, which described the murder of the Yugoslavian king by terrorists on a trip to Marseilles in 1934. Yugoslavia never entirely replaced Russia in Stephen`s heart and head. It did nevertheless win an important place in his heart - along with Vera - and he travelled extensively to the country until just a few years before his death. Stiven Grejem