06.02.2015
Promotion held for the book “Espionage wars of the Kingdom of Serbia in the wake of the Great War”
Today, at 17.00, at the Atrium of the Central Military Club of Serbia, the promotion was held for the monograph “Espionage wars of the Kingdom of Serbia in the wake of the Great War” by Dr. Milan Mijalkovski, Prof. Dr. Dusko Tomic, Colonel Zvonimir Pesic and politicologist Zoran Antic.The monograph represents a sustainable and complex explanation of an insufficiently familiar sphere of national security of the Kingdom of Serbia from 1878, when the issue of Serbian nationality became a topical European issue, until the breakout of the Great War in 1914.
In spite of the bad weather, the Atrium was filled with guests, and the book was presented to the audience by publishers Prof. Dr. Vladimir Tomasevic, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Management, Suzana Petrovic, Director of the Historical Archive “January 31” from Vranje, reviewer Prof. Dr. Branko Krga and the authors of the monograph.
“It has been our great honor to have published this monograph with our team of professors, because we, the engineers believe that security, that is, the intelligence services should be proactive, devised and systematically organized, and every systematically arranged approach is effective”, Dr. Tomasevic said on behalf of the publishers.
“The monograph we present today is written in simple but technical style, so I fully recommend it to friends in intelligence security services, scientist dealing with the Great War, students and professors, journalists, and a broader circle of readers, all the more since what can be found in this book is something truly remarkable”, Prof. Dr. Branko Krga stated.
There are numerous works in our historiography about Serbia’s participation in the Great War, the magnificent victories on Kolubara and Cer, the heroism of its soldiers, the tragic retreat towards Albania and the heroic return after the breakthrough of the Thessaloniki Front. What is missing are the themes addressed by this book – the intelligence or espionage war. A bit more of this was reflected upon by the authors themselves, each from the point of material they had worked on during their writing.
“Between the covers of this book, there is everything we had found during our research on this topic, and what is particularly important is the fact that the manuscript was written from a historical distance of a century. Numerous examples from original sources were listed, represented with indisputable documents. This book should be a referential source of data for future researchers and the incentive to fully clarify all unknown and unfamiliar facts in the wake of the Great War”, Colonel Pesic explained, stressed that understanding national history is very important.
Politicologist Zoran Antic also spoke about the importance of being familiar with national history, because the history repeats itself.
“Nothing in the Balkans has happened by accident and we have not led a single war that was not imposed on us. Geopolitical constants are the same as they were a hundred years ago; what was happening then is also happening now”, Antic said.
In the breaks between the authors’ address, excerpts from the book will be read by Dragan Stankovic, and the night was enriched by vocal soloists Ivana Tasic and Branimir Stosic, accompanied by accordion soloist Slobodan Jovanovic.
