Louis Sell, retired Foreign Service Officer of the U.S Department of State, historian, and author will be speaking at the Whitefield Library, 1 Arlington Lane on Rte. 126 on April 19 at 7 p.m. as part of our series of Author Talks. Louis Sell served for many years in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, where he fulfilled the Chinese proverb “May you live in interesting times.” These included the rise of nationalist dictator Slobodan Milosevic, the disintegration of Yugoslavia and subsequent conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo; the 1991 collapse of the USSR and the events which followed. He will be speaking about the conflict in Ukraine – what’s happening and what it means for the US and the world, with a dollop of what to expect from Vladimir Putin thrown in. Louis is the author of two books: “Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia” and “From Washington to Moscow: US-Soviet Relations and the Collapse of the USSR,” both published by Duke University press.
