Memoirs of a Serbian Refugee

Résumé du livre

"Milan was a young teen at the time when Yugoslavia fell under Nazi Occupation in World War II. He, his family, and hundreds of thousands of ethnic Serbs, were thrust between the colossal weight of rival ideologies that divided villages and tore families apart: The Nazis, whose program of ethnic cleansing and genocide held the country in its demonic grip. And that of the Communists, the resistance under whose first innocent lives also became just as expendable. An ethnic Serb born in Macedonia, Milan tells his story, grieving the countless others who never had a chance to tell theirs. These untold stories include that of his only brother, Dušan. To avoid capture by the Communists Dušan joined the 2nd Toplica Gvozdeni Puk as they marched past his family's home on Sept. 1, 1944. It was Milan's sixteenth birthday. Wanting to be with his brother, Milan followed in his footsteps, promising their mother they should be home in a few weeks. Little did he know that he would not see home again for twenty-three years...