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Simone Malacrida The Great Illusion

Fiction
English
134152 Words
No Age Recommendation
18
0

The love between Klaus and Uma, children of Slavic émigrés in Berlin, collides with the Twentieth Century and emerges defeated.Crushed by a cumbersome past and the looming present, they cannot have a future together, but only two individual lives, separated by the Wall, erected in the middle of officially pacified Europe with no declared wars.Their story will resume, with tragic implications, after reunification and the illusion of a world finally free of confrontation and violence.The rush of events will overwhelm their generation and the next, particularly the lives of Franz and Olga, who are inextricably linked to a Destiny that has quietly worked in the shadows throughout the century, marking the events and decisions of grandparents, fathers, sons and grandchildren. [more]

Keywords: berlin, war, cold, bosnia

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Clayton Jeppsen & Lindsey Jeppsen Field of Blackbirds

Fiction
English
1 Words
No Age Recommendation
456
1

Field of Blackbirds is a completed, 120,000 word, historical fiction, primarily set in the Balkan region of Yugoslavia. During a time of ethnic cleansing and genocide, four young men, hemispheres apart, set out for one common purpose; to find God’s mercy. Eventually, wearing different uniforms, their values, ideas and misconceptions collide during the Kosovo Crisis, in 1992. Reed: A baseball loving, all-American, everyday saint, who is ready to serve his country, but must prove that his stomach is as strong as his conviction when tossed into the blood-soaked fields of ethnic genocide. Lazar: A poor Serb, who joins the Yugoslav army out of patriotic duty, is forced to cleanse the village of his Muslim girlfriend. Will the guilty jaws of betrayal swallow him whole like Jonah and the whale? Marcielli: A classic Italian, Don Juan and soccer pro, who forfeits a future of fame and glory to join the military so he and his new bride can shake the relentless Italian Mafia from repaying an unwanted debt to his family. And finally, Radenko: A military law graduate and the son of a prominent general from Montenegro, who battles his conscience while defending top-level war criminals, is plagued by the moral influences of his deceased mother. Can he provide a fair defense for his clients? Be prepared to experience life through their eyes. How far are you willing to follow your convictions? What really defines treason? Whose values are right anyways? Where will you stand as these young men could be fatally challenged with bringing moral courage and compassion to a horror-stricken way of life? You will feel with them, love with them, even hate with them, and you will pray they make the right decisions. [more]

Keywords: historical fiction, ethnic cleansing, genocide, balkans, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, NATO, Milosevic

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Clayton Jeppsen & Lindsey Jeppsen Field of Blackbirds

Fiction
English
123769 Words
No Age Recommendation
11780
22

Field of Blackbirds is a completed, 120,000 word, historical fiction, primarily set in the Balkan region of Yugoslavia. During a time of ethnic cleansing and genocide, four young men, hemispheres apart, set out for one common purpose; to find God’s mercy. Eventually, wearing different uniforms, their values, ideas and misconceptions collide during the Kosovo Crisis, in 1992. Reed: A baseball loving, all-American, everyday saint, who is ready to serve his country, but must prove that his stomach is as strong as his conviction when tossed into the blood-soaked fields of ethnic genocide. Lazar: A poor Serb, who joins the Yugoslav army out of patriotic duty, is forced to cleanse the village of his Muslim girlfriend. Will the guilty jaws of betrayal swallow him whole like Jonah and the whale? Marcielli: A classic Italian, Don Juan and soccer pro, who forfeits a future of fame and glory to join the military so he and his new bride can shake the relentless Italian Mafia from repaying an unwanted debt to his family. And finally, Radenko: A military law graduate and the son of a prominent general from Montenegro, who battles his conscience while defending top-level war criminals, is plagued by the moral influences of his deceased mother. Can he provide a fair defense for his clients? Be prepared to experience life through their eyes. How far are you willing to follow your convictions? What really defines treason? Whose values are right anyways? Where will you stand as these young men could be fatally challenged with bringing moral courage and compassion to a horror-stricken way of life? You will feel with them, love with them, even hate with them, and you will pray they make the right decisions. [more]

Keywords: historical fiction, ethnic cleansing, genocide, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Balkans, Bosnia, NATO, Milosevic

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Gordan Žunar Bombardment 1999

NATO criminals or liberators?

Social Science
English
2880 Words
Ages 16 and up
161
0

The main objective of this book is to see what actually led to NATO's bombing of Milosevic's Serbia and to see whether the attacks were a crime or not. The story is seen through the eyes of a young Serb who was only nine years old when the bombing happened. For many Serbs it was considered an aggression against their country and nation by Western forces. For the other part of Serbia's people, smaller part, it was a consequence of Milosevic's destructive politics that caused four wars on the Balkans in the nineties. The bombing to them was just a logical way of stopping this tyrant of destroying lives of Serbs as well as non-Serbs on the territory of former Yugoslavia. [more]

Keywords: NATO, serbia, croatia, bosnia, kosovo, montenegro, vojvodina, slovenia, macedonia, balkans, milosevic, djindjic, genocide, ethnic cleansing

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Nicholas Carter The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories

Fairy Tale
English
47159 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Sir Nicholas Patrick Carter, KCB, CBE, DSO, ADC Gen (born 11 February 1959) is a senior British Army [more]

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A.F. Pollard A Short History Of The Great War(Fiscle Part-3)

History
English
138452 Words
Ages 18 and up
3
1

On 28 June 1914 The Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Heir-Presumptive To The Hapsburg Throne, Was Shot In The Streets Of Serajevo, The Capital Of The Austrian Province Of Bosnia. Redeemed By The Russo-Turkish War Of 1876-7 From Ottoman Rule, Bosnia Had By The Congress Of Berlin In 1878 Been Entrusted To Austrian Administration; But In 1908, Fearing Lest A Turkey Rejuvenated By The Young Turk Revolution Should Seek To Revive Its Claims On Bosnia, The Austrian Government Annexed On Its Own Authority A Province Confided To Its Care By A European Mandate. This Arbitrary Act Was Only Challenged On Paper At The Time; But The Striking Success Of Serbia In The Balkan Wars Of 1912-13 Brought Out The Dangers And Defects Of Austrian Policy. For The Serbs Were Kin To The Great Majority Of The Bosnian People And To Millions Of Other South Slavs Who Were Subject To The Austrian Crown And Discontented With Its Repressive Government; And The Growing Prestige Of Serbia Bred Hopes And Feelings Of Slav Nationality On Both Sides Of The Hapsburg Frontier. The Would-Be And The Real Assassins Of The Archduke, While Technically Austrian Subjects, Were Slavs By Birth, And The Murder Brought To A Head The Antagonism Between A Race Becoming Conscious Of Its Possibilities And A Government Determined To Repress Them. The Crime Gave A Moral Advantage To The Oppressor, But The Guilt Has Yet To Be Apportioned, And Instigation May Have Come From Secret Sources Within The Hapsburg Empire; For The Archduke Was Hated By Dominant Cliques On Account Of His Alleged Pro-Slav Sympathies And His Suspected Intention Of Admitting His Future Slav Subjects To A Share In Political Power. [more]

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Youssef Rzouga DUE INFERNI NEL CUORE

Traduzioni Francesco Marroni e Renzo D’Agnillo

Poetry
Italian
395 Words
No Age Recommendation
1413
4

“Pescara Poesia del Mediterraneo”. È il titolo del meeting internazionale di poesia che si è tenuto 22 e sabato 23 maggio a Pescara. Il meeting, organizzato dal Comune di Pescara, in collaborazione con la Casa Editrice Tracce, è un’iniziativa collaterale ai Giochi del Mediterraneo 2009 che prevede la partecipazione di alcuni tra i maggiori poeti dell’area del Mediterraneo. La città adriatica ha invitato poeti provenienti da vari Paesi : Siham Bouhlal (Marocco/Francia), Dragan Dragojlovic´ (Serbia), ,Ivo Frbe¸ar (Slovenia),Sonja Manojlovic´ (Croazia), Ayten Mutlu (Turchia), Giorgos Petoussis (Cipro), Manuel Quiroga Clerigo (Spagna), Youssef Rzouga (Tunisia) e Stevka ¦mitran (Bosnia/Italia), per favorire l’integrazione e la pace tra i popoli che vivono nel Mediterraneo attraverso la cultura e la poesia. L’iniziativa è curata da Stevka ¦mitran, poetessa e docente universitaria e Nicoletta Di Gregorio, poetessa e presidente delle Edizioni Tracce. Pescara, 19/05/2009 [more]

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Zane Grey Desert Gold

History
English
104581 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

Assassination Of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Heir To The Throne Of Austria-Hungary, And His Wife In sarajevo, Bosnia, On June 28, 1914, It Was With A Feeling of Great Regret That Another Sorrow Had Been Added to The Many Already Borne By ThA Face Haunted cameron--A Woman'S Face. It Was There In the White Heart Of The Dying campfire; It Hung In the Shadows That Hovered Over The Flickering light; It Drifted in the Darkness Beyond. This Hour, When The Day Had Closed and The Lonely Desert Night Set In With Its Dead Silence, Was One In which Cameron'S Mind Was Thronged With Memories Of A Time Long Past--Of A Home Back In peoria, Of A Woman He Had Wronged and Lost, And Loved too Late. He Was A Prospector For Gold, A Hunter Of Solitude, A Lover Of The Drear, Rock-Ribbed Infinitude, Because He Wanted to Be Alone To Remember. e Aged emperor Francis Joseph. That Those Fatal Shots Would Echo Around The World And, Flashing out Suddenly Like A Bolt From The Blue, Hurl Nearly The Whole Of Europe Within A Week'S Time From A State Of Profound Peace Into One Of Continental War, Unannounced, Unexpected, Unexplained, Unprecedented in suddenness And Enormity, Was An Unimaginable Possibility. And Yet The Ringing of When The People Of The United states Heard The News Of The The Church Bells Was Suddenly Drowned by The Roar Of Cannon, The Voice Of The Dove Of Peace By The Blare Of The Trump Of War, And Throughout The World Ran A Shudder Of Terror At These Unwonted And Ominous Sounds. [more]

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