In the Baščaršija neighborhood of the Stari Grad municipality of Sarajevo, near the iconic Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque, the Sarajevo clock tower rises above the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Constructed in the 16th Century during
In the 1951 movie Strangers on a Train, one of Hitchcock’s best, a handsome young athlete, social climber, and aspiring politician named Guy Haines is stalked up and down the eastern seaboard from Penn Station
The Yugoslavian Civil War of the 1990s is one of the most poorly understood events of recent history. Beginning with the 10-Day War in the Summer of 1991, a brief conflict that killed under 100
If ever there were a film worthy of an American revival, it’s the Yugoslavian black comedy Maratonci trče počasni krug, the Marathon Family. Released in 1982, two years after the beloved communist patriarch Joseph Broz
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Crown Prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on July 28, 1914 is the most consequential assassination in history. Not only did it spark off a general European war that
While nobody may expect the Spanish Inquisition, everybody has heard of the Spanish Inquisition. Between November 1, 1478 and July 15, 1834, the infamous tribunal prosecuted over 150,000 people in Europe and Spanish America. While
