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A Serbian boy remembers [Texte imprimé] : Nazi occupation and communist liberation / Miodrag Beljakovic ; translated by Stephen Karganovic

Main Author: Beljaković, Miodrag, 1929-2018, AuteurSecondary Author: Karganović, Stefan, EditeurLanguage: anglais ; of original work, serbe.Country: Serbie.Publication: Kragujevac : Pogledi, 2018Distribution: Paris-La Défense : GMikSManufacture: impr. en SerbieDescription: 1 vol. (210 p.) : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 9788681014035.Dewey: 949.710 2092, 23Classification: 920Abstract: This is a testimony to the terrible time in which the Serbian nation was being destroyed by two ruthless enemies - fascism and communism. At eleven, the age of the author when World War II began, he was old enough to experience and remember its horrors. He was writing this book more than 30 years ago and he did not know whether he will ever be able to see a free Serbia. We must never forget what people have experienced from the fascists and communists and must learn lessons that will prevent similar calamities in the future. The author hoped the book would come into the hands of as large a number of readers as possible and thus contribute to the further disclosure of the communist evil that has aggrieved the Serbian people. It depicts life in two different worlds - the world of occupation and the world of communism, a system whose effects we could not evade. The author hopes that books like this that expose the reality of fascism and communism will be the required reading one day in free Serbian schools. Highlights of ‘A SERBIAN BOY REMEMBERS' include: • The description of the ordinary society in Yugoslavia as a Kingdom on the eve of WWII • A narrative of occupation and one of the still unpunished Nazi war crimes in Serbia where 2,300 Serbian civilians, including author's father, were murdered in October 1941 in a few days. • Concrete cases in a Serbian city showing how the communist regime established its power after WW2 in Yugoslavia..Subject - Topical Name: Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Atrocités -- Serbie Subject - Form: Récits personnels serbes
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This is a testimony to the terrible time in which the Serbian nation was being destroyed by two ruthless enemies - fascism and communism. At eleven, the age of the author when World War II began, he was old enough to experience and remember its horrors. He was writing this book more than 30 years ago and he did not know whether he will ever be able to see a free Serbia. We must never forget what people have experienced from the fascists and communists and must learn lessons that will prevent similar calamities in the future. The author hoped the book would come into the hands of as large a number of readers as possible and thus contribute to the further disclosure of the communist evil that has aggrieved the Serbian people. It depicts life in two different worlds - the world of occupation and the world of communism, a system whose effects we could not evade. The author hopes that books like this that expose the reality of fascism and communism will be the required reading one day in free Serbian schools. Highlights of ‘A SERBIAN BOY REMEMBERS' include: • The description of the ordinary society in Yugoslavia as a Kingdom on the eve of WWII • A narrative of occupation and one of the still unpunished Nazi war crimes in Serbia where 2,300 Serbian civilians, including author's father, were murdered in October 1941 in a few days. • Concrete cases in a Serbian city showing how the communist regime established its power after WW2 in Yugoslavia. éditeur

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