ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1948
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Sa potpisom autora, prvo izdanje

U dobrom stanju, malo iskrzani rubovi, kao na slici, podvučena jedna rečenica. Kompaktna, stranice čiste.

Putopis američkog novinaa Roberta Sent Džona iz posleratne Jugoslavije.


- Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1948. Hardcover. Condition: Good.
- 1st Edition. Doubleday & Company, New York. 1948. Hardcover.
- Stated First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and virtually unmarked. No stuck pages; boards straight. Maps as endpapers. 397 pp 8vo.

- This story is about the Balkans after WWII and after Iron Curtain closes on Yugoslavia. His trip takes him to Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia, and Montenegro giving an eloquent personal story with dramatic on-th-spot reportage from people who looked older than their ages but held hopes for the future. A clean presentable copy with a beautiful signature. Inscribed by Author(s).



Hardcover : 397 pages
Item Weight : 3 pounds
Publisher : Doubleday & Co; 1st edition (1948)
Language: : English



THE SILENT PEOPLE SPEAK
by Robert St. John

ROBERT ST. JOHN, who told about the war-torn Balkans in From the Land of Silent People, went back last year to that nervous double spot, penetrated the iron curtain, and came back with the exciting story, The Silent People Speak.

In Belgrade, St. John found the job of UNRRA inspiring, the attitude of our State Department disappointing, and the work of foreign correspondents maddeningly frustrating. The city itself was much the same as when the German bombs were slaughtering the population, but the people were changed, both in appearance and outlook.

But Belgrade is only part of Yugoslavia; the real story of the country lay with the people in the remote interior. With the help of Anita, an interpreter, St. John went to the back country of Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia, and Montenegro, to get the real story of Yugoslavia. Together they traveled through a section of the Balkans that no tourist ever visits. It was the winter of 1947, and they rode through the country in an open jeep or in unheated freight cars, sleeping in the open and in peasant cottages.

Everywhere they met the people of the New Yugoslavia, people who looked years older than their real ages but who had survived successive waves of would-be conquerors. The people of the country remembered Robert St. John with affection because of his sympathetic story of the Balkans at war, and they spoke to him freely of their hopes for the future.

THE SILENT PEOPLE SPEAK is an eloquent personal story, combining dramatic on-the-spot reportage with a sure feeling for the people and their problems.

Tomorrow, has been tasting war and adventure since he went to France as a sixteen-year-old volunteer in 1918. A few years later he was almost killed in a gang war because, as the youngest editor-publisher in the Middle West, he had campaigned to drive Scarface Al Capone out of Cicero, Illinois.

In World War II he was wounded when a Greek troop train he was on was strafed by a German plane. After twenty years as a newspaperman he became a radio commentator and public lecturer during the war. In his books, broadcasts, lectures, magazine articles, and newspaper stories, “people” have always been St. John’s theme.

Contents
Foreword
Part One
THIS IS ANYMAN’S LAND
1. Lights and Shadows
Part Two
THIS IS BELGRADE
2. The Chase of the Will-o’-the-Wisp Begins
3. Who Said the Dead Don’t Cry?
4. If There’s No Spark, Make One
5. Angels on the Ceiling
6. She Called Them “My People”
7. Proving That You Can’t Always Tell
8. Also Proving That You Can’t Always Tell
9. “The Terror”
10. Freedom—To Wander
11. The Man Who Would Not Be King
12. “Sympattcna”
13. Good-by to All That
Part Three
THESE` ARE THE BOSNIANS
14. Welcome to Sarajevo
15. It All Depends on the Point of View
16. The Dance of Death
17. “A Sea of Ink and the Sky for My Paper”
18. Wealthier Than a Sultan—Once
19. Now They’re Just Bandits
20. There Are No Plovics Any More
21. Good Steel Doesn’t Break
22. Atom Bombs Could Do No Worse
23. Why?
24. Counting the Dead Isn’t Easy
25. Headline Writers Would Call It a “Food Riot”
26. Then They Always Say “lzvtnite”
27. To Poultrymen It’s a Disease
28. The Old Man from Selani
29. Red, Red Flows the Drina
30. Always the Same Question
31. Dwarfed Bodies, But Minds Alive
32. “I Forgot to Tell You . .
33. As Yellow As Glittering Gold
34. The Miracle of Cajnice
35. An Enemy of the Regime
36. Forgive the Man Who Killed Your Mother?
37. Little Rubber Balls
38. Its Stones Were Flecked with Pink
39. Education—Yugoslav Style
40. This Was Her “Baby”!
41. Some Still Live in the Hills
Part Four
THESE ARE THE DALMATIANS
42. Niko the Apotekar
43. More “Enemies of the Regime”
44. Women Without Men
45. But They Do Sing
46. They Love Their Adriatic
47. Labor—Before, During, After
48. They Call “Hi, Serge!”
49. One Hundred Thousand Guests for Dinner
50. Sunday Is Sunday Is Sunday
51. “Who Wants to Work?”
Part Five
THESE ARE THE MONTENEGRINS
52. It Keeps You Young for Life
53. Yugoslavia Under a Miscroscope
54. “Never a Race of Mightier Mountaineers”
55. Wanted—More Trucks, Fewer Diplomats
Part Six
THESE ARE THE CROATIANS
56. Culture and Thin Bread
57. Rankin, Pennsylvania
58. Lidice with a Serbian Name
59. “Bloto” Is Perfect
60. Back to Wagging Tongues
Part Seven
THIS IS THE VOJVODINA
61. Land of Plenty
62. UNRRA at Work
Part Eight
THESE ARE THE SERBS
63. All Is Not Leaves in a Teacup
64. Milan, Milan, Milan
65. More Beast Than Man
66. Brother Against Brother
67. Her First Corsage
68. Believing Isn’t Seeing
Part Nine THIS IS GREECE
69. Luxury Interlude
70. Millions for Cosmetics; Not a Cent for Reconstruction
71. “Me and My Shadow”
Part Ten
THESE ARE THE MACEDONIANS
72. “Srecan Put to Myself
73. And the South Progresses Too
Part Eleven
THIS IS YUGOSLAVIA’S YOUTH
74. “Three Meters Tonight!1
Part Twelve
THIS IS STRICTLY PERSONAL
75. Lost Is Found
Part Thirteen
THIS IS BELGRADE AGAIN
76. Capital Potpourri
77. May Day Isn’t Only Baskets
Part Fourteen
THESE ARE THE SLOVENES
78. More West Than East
79. Without Portfolio
80. “Sorta Like a Son”
81. Faithful to a Phenomenon
82. Gold Is Not Golo
83. Impact Psychological
84. Genteel Discontent
85. Brooklyn in a Castle
86. From Taxes to Sex
87. Blood or Star Dust

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