19.09.2014
Promotion of the book Brothers in Arms (1914-1918)
In the Serbian Armed Forces Central Military Club, the book by publicist Branko Bogdanovic Brothers in Arms was presented in Russian, published to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. In front of dozens of admirers of history and weapons, speakers about the book which describes the level of equipment of the Serbian and the Russian armies in the Great War by documents were Georgy Vedensky, reviewer and curator of the Museum of Commanders in the Imperial Village and the Museum of the First World War in St. Petersburg, Miroslav Lazanski, honorary president of the National Association for Arms of Serbia and the author.Based on archival material from institutions at home and abroad and memoirs mostly of foreign combatants in Serbia and the Salonika front, Bogdanovic presented unexplored aspects of the Sarajevo assassination and political activities that followed and lasted until the declaration of war on Serbia.
The author, as a good connoisseur of weapons of the Second World War, paid special attention exactly to the equipment and weapons by which the Serbian Army won dazzling victory in the first battles with the Austro-Hungarian armies. Detailed view of the missions for the defence of Belgrade and operations in Serbia and the Salonika front, which involved Russian, British and French artillery men, sailors and soldiers indicates that Serbia was genuinely loved by ordinary people both from Russia and the Western allies, who participated in the war epic from 1914 to 1918 abreast of the Serbian soldiers becoming a kind of "brothers in arms".
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