Serbia Crucified: The Beginning:
If what Lieutenant Krunich has written were really and altogether what it seems to be in part-if it were in any abstract or pretentious way a treatise on the national spirit of Serbia, an interpretation, or a formal plea, -one would have to set it down simply as a very naive book. Especially in the earlier chapters, there is, indeed, an overflow of emotion that strikes one as somewhat primitive or childlike-an unrestrained glorification of Serbia, a vehement, heartfelt hatred of Bulgaria, a loathing almost physical for Serbia's enemies and especially for Germans. The effect of unsophistication is increased by a somewhat overwrought and ecstatic style.

Different peoples, to be sure, have different temperaments. To the Anglo-Saxon, the melting of the soul into an intense feeling of mingled hatred and pity may seem a kind of moral deliquescence. In the Serbian, this very state appears to be consistent with the sternest, most deliberate heroism, if not the normal accompaniment of it.

One night, after five days' fighting before Nish, Lieutenant Krunich was lying in the grass outside the trench.
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Serbia Crucified: The Beginning:
If what Lieutenant Krunich has written were really and altogether what it seems to be in part-if it were in any abstract or pretentious way a treatise on the national spirit of Serbia, an interpretation, or a formal plea, -one would have to set it down simply as a very naive book. Especially in the earlier chapters, there is, indeed, an overflow of emotion that strikes one as somewhat primitive or childlike-an unrestrained glorification of Serbia, a vehement, heartfelt hatred of Bulgaria, a loathing almost physical for Serbia's enemies and especially for Germans. The effect of unsophistication is increased by a somewhat overwrought and ecstatic style.

Different peoples, to be sure, have different temperaments. To the Anglo-Saxon, the melting of the soul into an intense feeling of mingled hatred and pity may seem a kind of moral deliquescence. In the Serbian, this very state appears to be consistent with the sternest, most deliberate heroism, if not the normal accompaniment of it.

One night, after five days' fighting before Nish, Lieutenant Krunich was lying in the grass outside the trench.
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Serbia Crucified: The Beginning:

Serbia Crucified: The Beginning:

Serbia Crucified: The Beginning:

Serbia Crucified: The Beginning:

Overview

If what Lieutenant Krunich has written were really and altogether what it seems to be in part-if it were in any abstract or pretentious way a treatise on the national spirit of Serbia, an interpretation, or a formal plea, -one would have to set it down simply as a very naive book. Especially in the earlier chapters, there is, indeed, an overflow of emotion that strikes one as somewhat primitive or childlike-an unrestrained glorification of Serbia, a vehement, heartfelt hatred of Bulgaria, a loathing almost physical for Serbia's enemies and especially for Germans. The effect of unsophistication is increased by a somewhat overwrought and ecstatic style.

Different peoples, to be sure, have different temperaments. To the Anglo-Saxon, the melting of the soul into an intense feeling of mingled hatred and pity may seem a kind of moral deliquescence. In the Serbian, this very state appears to be consistent with the sternest, most deliberate heroism, if not the normal accompaniment of it.

One night, after five days' fighting before Nish, Lieutenant Krunich was lying in the grass outside the trench.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781663529008
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date: 07/08/2020
Pages: 314
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Milutin Krunich was a patriotic Serbian lieutenant and author whose stories were used to create a Serbophil sentiment in America leading up to the American entry into World War I.

A patriotic Serbian book Serbia Crucified: The Beginning in 1918 was written with the help of Leah Marie Bruce from Berkeley California. It was reviewed in The Survey in 1918. It was reviewed again in 1919.

It contains four stories

"The Fall of Nish"
"The Graveyard by the Morava"
"The Place of the Skull"
"Our Child"

The second and third of these appeared in the issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 119 in 1917.

Leah Marie Bruce also wrote letters to the editor reiterating the stories from the book.
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