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...BRIDGE ON THE DRINA (314 pp.)-Ivo Andric-Macmi/lan...
Above the rushing green waters of the Drina River, a beautiful white stone bridge with eleven vaulting arches provided a meeting place for the lackadaisical citizens of Visegrad. On summer evenings the townsfolk strolled its length, bought melons and cherries from the peasants, sipped thick Turkish coffee. The town elders sat smoking in the middle of the bridge, looked with contentment on the Bosnian mountains ringing their valley, gravely discussed public matters. The young men came to sing and joke, to flirt with passing girls or lean dreaming on the parapet. On such soft nights, a man on the bridge...
...sweet tranquillity" of Visegrad. They busily replace the outmoded fountains with new " 'unclean' water which passed through iron pipes so that it was not fit to drink"; they industriously built a railroad to the border that finally puts an end to the centuries-old traffic over the Drina Bridge. The book's last chapters take place in the first months of World War I, with Visegrad being shelled impartially by Austrian and Serbian guns. Suspected Serb sympathizers are hanged in Visegrad Square, and the last gesture of the retreating Austrians is to wreck the bridge over...
...fretful after the 500-mile voyage south to Belgrade, but the sight of mile-long food queues along Mihilova Street and the devastation wrought by his bombers a year ago might soothe him. He would not dare to make side trips up rivers like the Bosna or the Drina, because they lead to regions held by General Draja Mihailovich's growing guerrilla army. This band of 145-150,000 Serbs, Greeks and Bulgars is becoming a symbol of freedom to all the silent people of the Balkans. The Germans and Italians have increased their armies in Yugoslavia...
...Turkish commander cynically asked him: "Have you ever been in a worse predicament?" He replied: "Twice-on two occasions friends came to my house and I had no bread to offer them." > A Serbian general ordered a colonel to lead his troops across some impossibly wild hills near the Drina River. The colonel protested that his men would starve. The General said "Eat wolves." The colonel and his men went, ate wolves, fought the enemy...