Congratulations to our parishioner Prof. Dr. Sava Samuel Mikolaski on the publication of his latest book, which is a reflection on the history of Serbian people. The book is titled Guardian Serbs: Heritage of Betrayal.
The book is available for purchase at www.gmbooks.com
Please, find below a few endorsements of the book.
Честитамо нашем парохијанину проф. др Сави Миколашком на објављивању његове најновије монографије, а која је његов осврт на историју српског народа. Објављена је под насловом: Guardian Serbs: Heritage of Betrayal.
Књигу можете набавити на www.gmbooks.com
Испод прилажемо неколико осврта на књигу.
ENDORSEMENTS
of the book
Samuel J Mikolaski, Guardian Serbs: Heritage of Betrayal
Beverly Hills, CA: gmbooks.com, 2020 (William Dorich)
Dr. Sam Mikolaski has rendered the world a favor by giving us “Guardian Serbs—Heritage of Betrayal” as a loving legacy to Serbia, the land of his birth. But it is more than that. It is a comprehensive and incredibly readable (and beautifully presented) history which jogs our memory and our conscience with beautifully written prose and beautiful photographs. It is starkly factual and honest, as I know from my decades of covering Serbia and the Balkans during war and peace. And there is much, even for Balkan enthusiasts, to learn from this erudite volume. It will make us feel shame, delight, respect, and hope. The readers of this book will be better people for having read it. And the world will discover that the injustices visited on the Serbs during the 1990s were injustices visited upon the world itself. The proof of this is, as the book shows, the Serbs have remained true to their allies despite their allies’ betrayal of them.
— Gregory Copley, President, The International Strategic Studies Association.
History has not been fair to Serbia nor to its people. Its heroic role in defending Christian Europe from Islamic invasions and the terrible sacrifices suffered by Serbia in supporting the allies in two world wars have been forgotten. More devastating has been the 1999 illegal bombing of Serbia led by its former allies the United States and Britain. This infamous betrayal forms the major theme of the author’s book and reveals the hypocrisy and double standards practiced by the leaders of the so-called democratic countries. It is a book to be read not only by Serbians but more importantly by all those who still hold loyalty and freedom as values to cherish.
—James Bissett former Canadian Ambassador to the former Yugoslavia.
A truly remarkable book and a Must Read, not only for the Serbs living in English speaking countries, but also for the citizens of the US, Canada, Australia and the UK who should know the history of a small but proud freedom loving nation fighting aggression throughout its history: the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Nazi Germany, Tito’s communism and US/NATO led illegal aggression. My generation has been profoundly impacted and disappointed by betrayals from our western allies, beginning with WWII when all of Europe lay under the boots of Nazis—one nation led by General Mihailovic rose to defy the mighty war machine of the Third Reich, he was, however betrayed by the allies as Serbs were handed over to Tito’s communists. My grand-uncle, Dragic Joksimovic courageously defended General Mihailovic in Tito’s show trial and our entire family was blacklisted. In the 1990s, we experienced the US betrayal when the Clinton administration sided and supported the Islamic states, including Al Qaeda in the civil wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. I have known the author for over two decades, he has done an outstanding job capturing the highlights of Serbian history and their Heritage of Betrayal.
—Vojin Joksimovich, Ph.D.
Dr. Sam—as he is better known today (at 97) in the academic, sociological and theological ranks on two continents—arrived as a four-year-old with his parents in Canada in 1927. He was born in The Banat, the immense agricultural plains north of Belgrade–the Vojvodina, the Balkan no-man’s land which for generations had been under the Austro-Hungarians.
His most relevant academic, personal and public surmises stem from his vantage of, indeed, heritage and betrayal through the mysterious outcast experience and phenomenon—as “the Serb.” With publication into “life” of this book, he is more compelling and interesting as a “diagnostician/physician” attending the dark side of cultural betrayal of Serbs by the West after more than a century … as during the savage 78-days-straight bombing spree of Serbia by NATO/U.S. that decisively abetted creation (under U.S.-NATO sponsorship) of the European narco-state of Islamic Kosovo.
He held numerous pastoral and academic positions, advocated incessantly for Slavic Christians, and once observed of “faith”: No firmer foundation or working formula for human good has ever been proposed or found. The root problems of mankind are first and foremost not political and economic but social, moral and spiritual. Whether in the East or the West, it is becoming as clear as day that self-centered hedonism, or treating humans as need-satisfaction biological organisms, cannot work and has never worked. Writers on all sides are preaching secular sermons to modern man, but who is listening?
—Peter Brock, American journalist from Texas who speaks Serbian and Russian is the recipient of 17 professional awards including a finalist for the 1989 Pulitzer. A specialist for the Western media in the Balkans he was with the Philadelphia Inquirer for 20 years and the El Paso Herald-Post. He spent the first two years of the Civil Wars in Serbia and Bosnia and wrote about his experience in the book Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting (2005), currently in its 2nd edition.
The book includes well researched attributions that have successfully captured the essence of past fallacies denying Serbia its proper place in history. The author’s portrayal of Serbs as victims of imposed “Identity Crisis” emphasizes that, like the Phoenix, Serbia rose out of the ashes in the 19th century to become an American ally in two world wars providing the first victory of WWI at Cer, Serbia—contributing to the world’s societies under the most difficult of circumstances. Documented evidence that illustrates their heritage, customs, traditions, folklore and faith provides the lessons learned that demand overdue recognition and respect.
—David Vuich, Former Apollo Space Launch Team
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SAMUEL MIKOLASKI served as a senior Professor of Theology in several graduate schools. He has retained a keen interest in church life and ministry and has assisted students, pastors and churches in profiling church growth. This interest extends to administration philosophy, entrepreneurship and the values of a market economy, alongside his work and writing in Christian Theology. He continues to have a keen interest in his Serbian heritage and mourns the civil wars which have resulted in the breakup of Yugoslavia, the land of his birth. He has worked toward, and prays for, the Christian renewal of Serbs and other people in the Balkans, through the witness of committed Christians. While President of a Christian Junior College in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, he led the College to seek a Charter from the government of New Brunswick as an accredited four-year degree granting institution. It is now Crandall University, with an excellent faculty and multiple degree programs.
During 1994 he and his late wife Jessie were part of the first-ever delegation from the American Philosophical Association which visited seven universities in China. He was advisor to a television crew from CFTO, the anchor station in Toronto for Canada’s independent television network, who filmed a thirteen-part series in Israel and Egypt on the history of the Bible (1993). During 1994, 1995 and 1997 the author lectured in theology in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. From 1997 to January 2000 he served as president of the San Diego Chapter of the Serbian Unity Congress and as a Trustee of the World Affairs Council of Orange County, California. For fifteen years following retirement in 1988 from the Carey Theological College in the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, he taught Christian Theology in California as adjunct professor, including Fuller Theological Seminary.
Dr. Mikolaski was invited to address the Convocation and Graduation Exercises of Crandall University in 2008, at which time the university gave him their Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his acquiring degree-granting status for the university by means of a Bill proposed by the Premier, the Honorable Richard Hatfield, and passed by the Legislature of the Province.
Bio: Samuel J. Mikolaski, of Serbian birth, was born in Yugoslavia in 1923. He emigrated with his parents to Canada at the age of four. He was educated at the University of Western Ontario: B.A., Arts and Biblical Languages; M.A., Philosophy; the University of London, B.D., Honors; and the University of Oxford, D.Phil.
Prof. Mikoalski can be reached at mikolaskisj@yahoo.com