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Shadows of Giants: From the Ruins of Yugoslavia to Australia's Southern Shores
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Historical FiguresEastern European HistoryGeneral European History
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ISBN13: 9798182274616
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 19 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 19 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1904, sixteen-year-old Kosa left her village in northern Dalmatia on a horse-drawn cart and never went back.
She had no way of knowing that her life there, defined by love, war, and survival in the region's isolated stone villages, would still be echoing a century later in the life of her great-granddaughter, on the other side of the world. Shadows of Giants follows four generations of one family through a turbulent century of history: two World Wars, the rise and violent collapse of Yugoslavia, displacement, and the long search for a place to belong. At the heart of this history are three women: Kosa, Stoja, and Sandra, each caught in the gears of major world events, and each finding a way to keep moving forward when it felt impossible. Sandra's own journey takes her from a peaceful childhood on the Croatian coast straight into the chaos of the 1991 war.
She had no way of knowing that her life there, defined by love, war, and survival in the region's isolated stone villages, would still be echoing a century later in the life of her great-granddaughter, on the other side of the world. Shadows of Giants follows four generations of one family through a turbulent century of history: two World Wars, the rise and violent collapse of Yugoslavia, displacement, and the long search for a place to belong. At the heart of this history are three women: Kosa, Stoja, and Sandra, each caught in the gears of major world events, and each finding a way to keep moving forward when it felt impossible. Sandra's own journey takes her from a peaceful childhood on the Croatian coast straight into the chaos of the 1991 war.
From escaping through shelled Bosnian towns in a Red Cross convoy to navigating poverty and abusive relationships, her path is defined by the slow, quiet work of rebuilding. Eventually, she arrives in Melbourne, where she finally begins to build the future and the family she always wanted.
This memoir is about what we inherit from the people who came before us, not just their resilience, but their wounds and unfinished stories, and what it takes to carry that weight into a completely new life.
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