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Chargement... Leven en dood op de Balkan : een leven in Kosovo, Montenegro en Serviëpar Bato Tomasevic
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This memoir really held my interest, since it covered a period in the history of the Balkans that is central to my research. The man telling the tale survived enormous upheaval, and gives an honest detailed account of what life was like for him and his family in Montenegro, Kosovo, and post-war Yugoslavia. Bato Tomasevic became a Yugoslavian Partisan during World War II at the tender age of 14 and lost several friends and family members along the way. He himself nearly died several times and I can only admire his loyalty to his friends and family and the cause he was fighting for. His views on the Chetniks, in particular, drew me in as I have read similar works by other authors with very different views and the contrast was highly informative. What I enjoyed the most, however, was the personal side of things and the way of life he describes, including descriptions of family holidays, savas or saints' days, and his early encounters with the shady ladies brought into Cetinje to 'entertain' the Italian occupation troops. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
This compellingly written autobiography covers the past century and more in the life of Bato Tomasevic's Montenegrin family in the harsh and ever-turbulent mountains of southern Yugoslavia. The narrative begins some fifty years before the Balkan wars (1912-1913) and recounts the harrowingexperiences of the Tomasevic clan in the twentieth century's two World Wars. The author conveys vividly the hardships of life in under Italian and German occupation: the daily executions, the heroism of underground workers and the effects of occupation on ordinary people.Bato Tomasevic was a boy soldier with the Partisans and experienced the horrors of warfare against the Chetniks, cheating death in an ambush in Eastern Bosnia.Just as vivid are his accounts of, inter alia, post-war Yugoslavia, his narrow escape in the Munich air disaster, life in Belgrade in thehopeful sixties and seventies, the break-up of the Federation after Tito's death, and the efforts of extreme nationalists to create a Greater Serbia and a Greater Croatia through armed might and ethnic cleansing. The family saga ends with Tomasevic's experience of the NATO bombing of Serbia in March1999 and the downfall and imprisonment of President Milosevic.Tomasevic's story is at once fascinating, heroic, tragic, sometimes even funny, but unquestionably moving, such as his description of he and his mother finding his dead brother's skull or of witnessing a suicide by a young German prisoner of war of roughly the same age as him. It is a story asremembered by a young boy, whose family, like his country, was drawn into a violent and brutal conflict that it could not escape. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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