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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...

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...

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...

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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