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mwalkeristra
Aug 7, 2023
HELL HATH NO FURY – the poetry of women Partisans in Yugoslavia 1941 – 1945
‘You who burned my house and killed my child, who shelters beneath a foreign wing, a traitor who accepts a salary from the enemy! Did you...
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mwalkeristra
Jul 16, 2023
WINTER BATTLES: BOSNIA 1941
December 1941: Fleeing the German destruction of Užice in Serbia, Tito and the Partisans crossed the River Drina in winter, climbed the...
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mwalkeristra
May 19, 2022
Can You Write a Novel If You Have Big Feet?
How many women do you know who commence an historical novel based on their shoe size? Or their head circumference? Or their height? When...
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mwalkeristra
May 14, 2022
NOT THE YUGOSLAVS I REMEMBER
Hats off to Slovenian author Goran Vojnović! I have just finished reading his best-selling novel Yugoslavia, My Fatherland which he...
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mwalkeristra
May 14, 2022
Poems of World War 2 - Josip Cazi and the Yugoslav Partisans
THE MEETING by Josip Cazi On rainy evenings we used to walk through the muddy factory town beside the Danube, Jelice, my blue-eyed girl -...
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mwalkeristra
May 14, 2022
The Yugoslav Partisans and the Poems of Anđelka Martić
At the beginning of the twentieth century, two opposing political movements emerged from the fall of the old empires: the extreme right...
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