 Shortly after the invasion, Andrić returned to German-occupied Belgrade.He lived quietly in a friend's apartment for the duration of World War II, in conditions likened by some biographers to house arrest, and wrote some of his most important works, including "Na Drini ćuprija" ("The Bridge on the Drina").Following the war, Andrić was named to a number of ceremonial posts in Yugoslavia, which had since come under communist rule.