Balkan Monastery: A NovelFrederick A. Stokes, 1936 - 328 pagine "An unusual novel, of a little known facet of the war -- not in the front trenches, but in a Serbian monastery where 80 young girls from Belgrade have been placed for safety. The relief forces fail them -- the advance of the Germans finds them deserted even by the old monks. One child runs away to seek her brother, and -- at the time of the realignment of races and boundaries, she is adopted by Bulgarians, and her Serbian heritage comes militantly to the fore. Eventually, she runs away again and is found by her father." --Kirkus review. |
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Pagina 110
... guns had made the army retreat . Did the soldiers think of their own homes and villages , of their wives , mothers , children ? If so , they were not sentimental . There were no de- serters ... guns , guns telling them 110 BALKAN MONASTERY.
... guns had made the army retreat . Did the soldiers think of their own homes and villages , of their wives , mothers , children ? If so , they were not sentimental . There were no de- serters ... guns , guns telling them 110 BALKAN MONASTERY.
Pagina 170
... guns found the range of the first line of the Bulgars . Not one of those yelling enemies reached the trenches . But a second line rose from the shingle and sand of the river bed , and a third appeared midway between the river and ...
... guns found the range of the first line of the Bulgars . Not one of those yelling enemies reached the trenches . But a second line rose from the shingle and sand of the river bed , and a third appeared midway between the river and ...
Pagina 176
... guns , batteries of fifteen centi- meter guns , fourteen oxen to each gun . And wretched families of civilians with all their possessions , their children , their animals , mixed with the army , and im- peded it at every point . Enemy ...
... guns , batteries of fifteen centi- meter guns , fourteen oxen to each gun . And wretched families of civilians with all their possessions , their children , their animals , mixed with the army , and im- peded it at every point . Enemy ...
Sommario
ALL MUST LEAVE THE CITY | 1 |
GRANDFATHER RUSS | 14 |
FLOGGING THE DEVIL | 35 |
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Parole e frasi comuni
Abbot Michael Albanian Anna asked astery Aunt Mary Austrian Baba began belfry tower Belgrade Bora Bosnian bread Brother Moses Brother Seraphim Bulgarian Bulgars carts cell Cheeka church coffee dead Desa Desa's Dmitrief door Drin enemy exclaimed face fire Frau Schmidt French frocks Georgevitch Germans Gitsa gone Grandfather Russ guns gypsies hair hand horses Junis Kafana King Peter kitchen knew Krushevats landlady little girls looked lorry maize marched Marya Mateivitch Milan Miss Rada monastery monastery of St monk from Alexinats Morava morning mother night Nish Panta Prasco priest Prishtina Prizren Prokuple rakkia Razhan refectory Ribari road Roman Russian sack Salonika Sava seemed sent Serbian army Serbian flags Serbs sergeant shell Sister Martha sleep slept snow Sofia soldiers Stanka stared stepmother stood told took Travnik typhus village waiting window woman yard Yelitsa and Militsa