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Clayton Jeppsen & Lindsey Jeppsen Field of Blackbirds

Fiction
English
1 Words
No Age Recommendation
456
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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
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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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Sam Vaknin After the Rain - How the West Lost the East

History
English
2 Words
No Age Recommendation
794
10

An anthology of more than 50 articles regarding the politics, economics, geopolitics and history of countries in central [more]

Keywords: Central Europe, Southeastern Europe, Balkans, Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, Russia, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Centraleastern Europe, Habsburg, Ottoman, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, EU, European Union, euro, NATO, Greece [more][Less]

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Sam Vaknin Macedonia: A Nation at a Crossroads

History
English
2 Words
No Age Recommendation
462
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The economy, culture, society, politics, and Balkan geopolitics of the Republic of Macedonia and its people.

Keywords: Central Europe, Southeastern Europe, Balkans, Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, Russia, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Centraleastern Europe, Habsburg, Ottoman, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, EU, European Union, euro, NATO, Greece [more][Less]

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Sam Vaknin The Belgian Curtain - Europe after Communism

History
English
2 Words
No Age Recommendation
343
3

The European Union, NATO, the euro, and central and eastern Europe after the fall of communism.

Keywords: Central Europe, Southeastern Europe, Balkans, Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, Russia, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Centraleastern Europe, Habsburg, Ottoman, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, EU, European Union, euro, NATO, Greece [more][Less]

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Sam Vaknin Putin's Russia

History
English
2 Words
No Age Recommendation
509
10

Russia's economy and politics under President Vladimir Putin.

Keywords: Central Europe, Southeastern Europe, Balkans, Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia, Russia, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Centraleastern Europe, Habsburg, Ottoman, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, EU, European Union, euro, NATO, Greece [more][Less]

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Gordan Žunar Bombardment 1999

NATO criminals or liberators?

Social Science
English
2880 Words
Ages 16 and up
161
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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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Rebecca West The Judge (fiscle part-III)

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English
199470 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield DBE (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was widely considered to be among the important public intellectuals of the 20th century. She reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, and the New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason, later The New Meaning of Treason, a study of the trial of the British Fascist William Joyce and others; The Return of the Soldier, a modernist World War I novel; and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund. Time called her "indisputably the world's number one woman writer" in 1947. [more]

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Miha Mazzini Erased

The State Wiped Out Her Identity, Now They Are Coming For Her Child

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English
68598 Words
Ages 16 and up
138
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This story is based on true events. Governments are not only collecting the information about the citizens, sometimes they are destroying or manipulating them too.Zala gives birth at the local hospital and everything goes well. There is only a small, bureaucratic problem; Zala's file is not on the computer. A software glitch, probably nothing serious. Within a few days, Zala is entangled in a web of Kafkaesque proportions; Not being in the computer means no social security, no permanent address. All of a sudden Zala is a foreigner, even though she has lived in Slovenia all of her life. Legally, she doesn’t exist. So, her child is an orphan. And orphans are put up for adoption.On 26th February 1992 the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Slovenia erased 25,671 people who were born outside Slovenia, in the states that once were part of Yugoslavia: Some of them thought themselves Slovenians until they have to show their identity card. The majority of them still have no legal status. [more]

Keywords: legal, drama, mother, child

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Cotter Bass WORLD WAR ONE KILLING FIELDS

History
English
8253 Words
Ages 12 and up
241
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World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global conflict originating in Europe that lasted from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918. Contemporaneously described as "the war to end all wars,” it led to the mobilization of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. It was also one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with an estimated nine million combatants and seven million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war, while resulting genocides and the 1918 influenza pandemic lead to another 50 to 100 million deaths worldwide. The war caused the disintegration of four empires: the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian. Germany lost its overseas empire, and states such as Czechoslovakiaand Yugoslavia were created, or recreated, as in the cases of Lithuania and Poland. This contributed to a decisive break with the world order that had emerged after the Napoleonic Wars, which was modified by the mid-19th century’s nationalistic revolutions. The results of World War I would also be important factors in the development of World War II just over two decades later. Much of the fighting in World War I took place along the Western Front, within a system of opposing manned trenches and fortifications (separated by a "no man's land") running from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. On the Eastern Front, the vast eastern plains and limited rail network prevented a trench warfare stalemate from developing, although the scale of the conflict was just as large. Hostilities also occurred on and under the sea and - for the first time - in the air. WORLD WAR ONE KILLING FIELDS, by Cotter Bass, provides a brief but graphic overview of the battlefield horrors of World War I. [more]

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