ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1977
Autor: Domaći
Jezik: Engleski

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; First Edition (1977)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 470 pages
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.92 pounds

An account of the partisan campaign in Yugoslavia during World War II, written from the author`s unique perspective-as a key leader of Tito`s forces. Index; photographs. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.
Retko,lepo ocuvana
`In Wartime, Milovan Djilas writes the classic account of Partisan warfare and the Communist rise to power in Yugoslavia during World War II. Despite his imprisonments for periods of more than nine years, he teils his story witli the enthusiasm of youth, the zeal of a revolutionary, and the uncertainty of a man.

Djilas describes the legendary battles in the harsh Yugoslav mountains, the Partisan of-fensives and retreats, the grim decisions of the war:

• Should the Serbian people continue resistance even if the Germans killed one hundred Serbs for every dead German?
• Should the Partisans negotiate an exchange of prisoners with the Germans without informing the Russians?
• Should thousands of gravely wounded Partisans be abandoned to German retribution or be cared for on the road by their comrades, causing the almost certain death of all?

Djilas recalls Tito—the man, the wartime leader, the politician; he reflects on his young wife, Mitra, transformed by war into a tough cynical fighter; he reminisces about Sava Kovacević, a great hero, who at one point instructs his men to shoot at a mountain: “The important thing is for our guns to be heard.”

• Tito becomes Marshai and practises his signature in a cave, “in keeping with his new title, honours, and idolatries”.

• Stalin advises the Partisans to take King Peter back: “Not forever. Just temporarily, and then at the right moment—a knife in the back.`

• Djilas flies to Moscow in 1945 to see Stalin and explain his criticism of Soviet troop behaviour in Yugoslavia.

In May 1945 the war is over. The stage is set for the Communist takeover in Yugoslavia, and for Djilas’s rebellion against the establishment of revolutionaries as politicians.

Djilas is a superb storyteller who grasps die essential cliaracter of men and events, a ruthless critic of himself and others.

Until his expulsion froin the Communist party in 1954, Milovan Djilas was a VicePresident of Yugoslavia and one of Tito’s three highest aides. Writing both in prison and out, he produced several important and populär critical studies of Communism, a literary biography, volumes of short stories, two novels, and three autobiographical works, of which Wartime is the third. He now lives in Beigrade, unable to travel outside Yugoslavia.

Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Michael B. Petrovich`