{"product_id":"the-long-winter-of-1945-tivari-9781487543297","title":"The Long Winter of 1945: Tivari","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn March 1945, at the end of the Second World War, hundreds of unarmed Albanian recruits were massacred by Yugoslav partisans. For too long, the memory of this massacre in Tivari - a coastal town in Montenegro -was suppressed by the Yugoslav state and kept alive in Kosovo only in informal versions, nurtured and retold in a spirit of ethnic mistrust and hatred.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDepicted in graphic format, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Winter of 1945\u003c\/i\u003e presents an oral history of this traumatic event based on interviews with surviving participants. Archival documents and historical research provide context, placing the massacre in the broader setting of forced mass mobilization to fight, as well as the last pocket of Italian resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Long Winter of 1945\u003c\/i\u003e situates the events in Tivari into the broader context of Yugoslavia's war for liberation and the civil war between Serbs and Albanians. Bringing this traumatic event to the fore, this beautifully illustrated graphic novel rescues the memory of the victims and survivors from political exploitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Di Lellio\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer at the MA in International Relations (MAIR) at New York University. Dardan Luta is a graphic designer and teaches Multimedia Design in the Department of Art and Digital Media at UBT Higher Education Institution.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDardan Luta\u003c\/b\u003e is a graphic designer and teaches Multimedia Design in the Department of Art and Digital Media at UBT Higher Education Institution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50563033006354,"sku":"9781487543297","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8ffc0cff-d1f8-4506-a65a-f6ba4748346f.jpg?v=1731865700","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-long-winter-of-1945-tivari-9781487543297","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}