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Britanac koji je upoznao Srbe tokom Velikog otadžbinskog rata nazvao je svoju knjigu
SRBI, ČUVARI KAPIJE
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..written by a British Officer who was part of the British Salonika Force that witnessed the appalling but courageous Serbian retreat to Crete in World War I....
Knjiga The Serbs: the Guardians of the Gate (Srbi: Čuvari kapije) napisana je tokom Prvog svjetskog rata, prvo kao serija predavanja britanskim oficirima i vojnicima na balkanskom frontu...
Malena zemlja [Srbija] stoji na poziciji od svjetskog značaja: ona je čuvar kapija između planinskih lanaca, i stoga je izuzetno ugrožena (...) Mnogo
moćniji neprijatelji bacili su oko na puteve koji su pod njenom kontrolom.
Prema Laffanu, Srbija je branitelj kršćanstva i civilizirane Evrope. Srbi su 'oduvijek davali sve od sebe da služe kršćanstvu, jer njihova je zemlja zaista na samoj kapiji civilizirane Evrope.'
Vice-Admiral E.T. Troubridge u predgovoru knjige:
Serbia has indeed well and bravely answered the great question
He asked: 'What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?'"
(Šta vredi da čovek i ceo svet dobije, ako izgubi sopstvenu dušu?)
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2735319.R_G_D_Laffan
SRBI, ČUVARI KAPIJE
http://1.***************/_THHAOkJ84L4/S1ynqy1PqhI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/YDv3r29heY4/s320/Laffan+The+Serbs+Book+Cover.jpg
..written by a British Officer who was part of the British Salonika Force that witnessed the appalling but courageous Serbian retreat to Crete in World War I....
Knjiga The Serbs: the Guardians of the Gate (Srbi: Čuvari kapije) napisana je tokom Prvog svjetskog rata, prvo kao serija predavanja britanskim oficirima i vojnicima na balkanskom frontu...
Malena zemlja [Srbija] stoji na poziciji od svjetskog značaja: ona je čuvar kapija između planinskih lanaca, i stoga je izuzetno ugrožena (...) Mnogo
moćniji neprijatelji bacili su oko na puteve koji su pod njenom kontrolom.
Prema Laffanu, Srbija je branitelj kršćanstva i civilizirane Evrope. Srbi su 'oduvijek davali sve od sebe da služe kršćanstvu, jer njihova je zemlja zaista na samoj kapiji civilizirane Evrope.'
Vice-Admiral E.T. Troubridge u predgovoru knjige:
Serbia has indeed well and bravely answered the great question
He asked: 'What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?'"
(Šta vredi da čovek i ceo svet dobije, ako izgubi sopstvenu dušu?)
Vice-Admiral E.T. Troubridge said:
"The Serbians are a people little known in Great Britain.
I have lived among the Serbians during the past three years, in days, and under circumstances, which encourage the revelation of every human attribute: in the days immediately following their first success, when they triumphantly flung out of Serbia the 'Punitive expedition' of their powerful neighbour and relentless enemy: in long and weary days of tenacious defence: in the days of overwhelming and treacherous attack upon them, with hope of succour growing less and less: in days of terrible marches in a fighting retreat through their beloved country under moral and physical conditions surely never paralleled in the history of any nation: in the days of regeneration of all that was left of them: and finally in days of eager and reckless fighting to regain that which they had lost. The qualities which they have displayed throughout these fateful years should especially appeal to the inhabitants of our Empire.
A love of freedom and country as deeply implanted as our own. A loyalty to friends that does not falter under the greatest temptation, and a chivalry so innate that hundreds of our countrywomen could walk hundreds of miles through a great army in a harassed retreat, through a fleeing peasantry in a disorganized and strange land, and yet fear no evil.
From such experiences a judgment can be formed; I permit myself, with the Serbians, to believe in a Serbia great and flourishing in the future, pursuing her national development and ideals in peace and quietness, bound to Great Britain in the closest ties of friendship, and once more — as for centuries past — holding the gate of freedom of life, of freedom of thought, against the sinister forces of moral enslavement.
"The Serbians are a people little known in Great Britain.
I have lived among the Serbians during the past three years, in days, and under circumstances, which encourage the revelation of every human attribute: in the days immediately following their first success, when they triumphantly flung out of Serbia the 'Punitive expedition' of their powerful neighbour and relentless enemy: in long and weary days of tenacious defence: in the days of overwhelming and treacherous attack upon them, with hope of succour growing less and less: in days of terrible marches in a fighting retreat through their beloved country under moral and physical conditions surely never paralleled in the history of any nation: in the days of regeneration of all that was left of them: and finally in days of eager and reckless fighting to regain that which they had lost. The qualities which they have displayed throughout these fateful years should especially appeal to the inhabitants of our Empire.
A love of freedom and country as deeply implanted as our own. A loyalty to friends that does not falter under the greatest temptation, and a chivalry so innate that hundreds of our countrywomen could walk hundreds of miles through a great army in a harassed retreat, through a fleeing peasantry in a disorganized and strange land, and yet fear no evil.
From such experiences a judgment can be formed; I permit myself, with the Serbians, to believe in a Serbia great and flourishing in the future, pursuing her national development and ideals in peace and quietness, bound to Great Britain in the closest ties of friendship, and once more — as for centuries past — holding the gate of freedom of life, of freedom of thought, against the sinister forces of moral enslavement.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2735319.R_G_D_Laffan
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