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Neither Red Nor Dead: Coming of Age in Former Yugoslavia During and After World War II
Neither Red Nor Dead Coming of Age in Former Yugoslavia During and After World War II Author:Stevo Julius The Author, raised in a non-practicing Jewish family, is 12 years old when the Germans occupy former Yugoslavia. His family hides in a small village and eventually joins Titos guerrilla. At 14 years of age he is appointed as a military courier, given an outdated Italian gun, and sent to roam alone through mountains, forests, and small vill... more »ages of Croatia. After the war, just when things start to look better, his father breaks down under the Communist pressure and the author is forced to take refuge again. This is a story of how extraordinary events can bring out the worst and the best in ordinary people. How the author, to keep himself sane in the turmoil, learns to see the funny side of things, to understand what makes people tick, to keep eyes open, and when the going gets really rough- to recite poetry. This is also a story of two brothers who, facing same difficulties became very different adults and how a son unwittingly repeated some his fathers history.« less