<DIV>The Serbian Bogdan Bogdanovic (1922?2010)? architect, urbanist, polymath, writer, and former mayor of Belgrade?created some of the most distinctive memorials in Europe. In particular his ?Flower of Stone”, the Memorial for the Victims of the Concentration Camp in Jasenovac (Croatia, 1966), and the Dudik Memorial Park for the Victims of Facism in Vukovar (Croatia, 1980; partly destroyed during the Yugoslavian civil wars in the 1990s) gained international attention. Spread throughout the territories of former Yugoslavia, Bogdanovic’s around twenty monuments, memorial sites, and necropolises symbolize both the cultural diversity and the tragic history of the Balkans. Yet they all reflect Bogdanovic’s attitude of inclusion rather than exclusion, to unite rather than to separate.<BR> Friedrich Achtleitner, poet and architectural critic, has been a close friend of Bogdanovic during the latter’s years of exile in Vienna. Achleitner has visited all memorials, first together with Bogdanovic and, after the artist’s death in 2010, on his own. He found?in his own words??supranational, multiethnic, transreligious and life-affirming memorials that are among the most impressive artistically conceived commemorative sites inscribed into the European cultural landscape.” In the new book <I>A Flower for the Dead,</I> Achleitner presents what he has seen during his travels in essays and images.</DIV>