The Snows of Serbia: A child-soldier in the Great War
At a celebration of an important Serbian holiday, Stevan, a teen-age Serbian citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire learns that Archduke Ferdinand has been killeda??by a Serb! This critical historical event leads to radical changes in the life of the author, of the Balkans, and of the world. This first-hand account of a school boy caught up in World War I in Southeastern Europe illustrates the horrors of war and illuminates some of the religious and ethnic tensions that continue to plague that a...