13.02.2018.
Presentation of the Book “Studies on the Balkan Wars”
In the Central Military Club a book was presented titled “Studies on the Balkan Wars” by General and academician Živko Pavlović. The printing of the book was financed by resources of Department for cooperation with churches and religious communities of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia. Apart from lovers of the books on historical and military subjects, the promotion was also attended by cadets of the Military Academy, granddaughter of General Živko Pavlović Mira Ibrahimpašić retired General Branko Krga.
This book represents one of rare first rate historical sources when it comes to the Balkan Wars and battles waged for the liberation of the Balkan people from the Otoman rule, primarily Kumanovi and Bregalnica battles. Their comments on the books gave Branislav Anovič retired Colonel and President of the Organisation of the military reserve of Lazarevac, History Professor Ratko Vukelić, librarian and book editor and Lieutenant Colonel Miljan Milkić PhD, Head of Division for history in the Strategic Research Institute of the University of Defence.
General and academician Živko Pavlović, one of the greatest Serbian military minds, left numerous testimonies from the Balkan and First World War. Sadly, those pioneering and very significant scientific works were until recently unavailable to the wider and expert public. Anyways, according to Lieutenant Colonel Miljan Milkić, after the unification of southern Slavic peoples into one common state and realisation of Serbian war goals in 1918, Serbian historiography did not pay much attention to the Balkan Wars and the efforts of Serbian Army to free itself from several centuries long rule of Turkish conqueror.
After the Second World War, Serbian and Yugoslav historiography forgot about the First World War as well and the victims fallen for the creation of the first Yugoslavia. Publishing the reprinted issue of the “Studies on the Balkan Wars” somewhat rights that injustice and it opens a wide scientific and historical field for the study of the work of one of the greatest minds among generals of Serbian Army, a man who, by his military expertise and multitude of very serious scientific and non-fiction works about the battles of the Serbian Army, raised himself at the rank of academicians of the Royal Academy of Science.
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