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A BOOK ON THE BLOODY HISTORY OF THE FRANCISCAN PROVINCE OF HERZEGOVINA IN WORLD WAR II AND ITS AFTERMATH AND COMMUNIST CRIMES HAS BEEN PUBLISHED
Published by the Zagreb house Despot infinitus d.o.o. the book “Herzegovinian Franciscan Province during and after the Second World War” by Dr. sc. Hrvoje Mandić was published. The book was published as an extended doctoral dissertation that was translated into English, after its Croatian edition was published in 2021 under the title “The Franciscan Province of Herzegovina in the Second World War and the Aftermath”. In Croatian historiography, until this book, a complete synthesis of the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina in the Second World War and its aftermath has never been published, although a quality research foundation has been laid, especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which can be used for studying the history of the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina in the period from 1941 to 1945.
The book is based on deep and comprehensive research over a number of years through all available documentation and other testimonies and is of exceptional importance for the circumstances of the murders of the Franciscans on Široki Brijeg in February 1945. The book exposes the propaganda that subsequently focused on these and other similar episodes, and which is still repeated in Western historiography as if it were fact. Therefore, it is very important that this book is now also published in English.
The book, however, explores much more than the events themselves, as it places them in a wider context – both the activities of the Herzegovinian Franciscans during the Second World War, the goals of the Communist Party in these areas and the struggle with the Catholic Church. It is, therefore, a great contribution not only to the history of the Franciscans and the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also to the history of the Croats as a nation in general.
One of the reviewers of the book, the famous British historian Ph.D. Robin Harris, wrote that this book is original, significant and that he unreservedly rates it as a book of first-class importance for Croatian history.
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