BALKAN
CULTURAL
CO-OPERATION
CULTURAL
CO-OPERATION
Second revised edition, 2024
The complexity of the Great War period is largely interpreted by males’ military and political principles. In that context, Serbian historiography does not differ from the others’. When it deals with the role of women in the Great War, the accent is on women warriors, represented by the legendary heroine Milunka Savić, or on self-sacrificing nurses, the most famous of which is Nadezda Petrovic, the renowned painter. This book’s intent is different: we wanted to highlight the heroic role of Serbian women, both peasants and city-dwellers, whose shoulders carried the burden of their families, homes and estates, anguish for their burned and looted hearths, and concern for loved ones who were on the battlefront. They lived in constant fear and distress because the terror and crimes against the civilian population, carried out by the occupying armies, were cruel to the extent unheard of elsewhere in Europe. On such women fell all the responsibility for care for the children, the elderly, the weak, the sick and the girls who remained unmarried. MORE
Published: 2024-05-09
Updated: 2025-12-11
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