FORGOTTEN
SOLDIERS
By Bajram Angelo Koljenovic
The heart-rending true story
of a few unsung heroes
trying to do some good
in the maelstrom of chaos and violence
that is Bosnia.
This book is a dramatized non-fiction narrative based on the actual experiences and views of the author. He is also author of Blood Of Montenegro, an epic historical novel based on his family’s influence over three generations on the history of the Balkan states. Forgotten Soldiers is a personal look at the trials of a patriotic naturalized United States citizen from Bosnia, and his struggle to find help for the people of his homeland, the Bosniaks, as they fell to the genocide of Slobodan Milosevic’s attempt to eliminate them. In his efforts, he worked with powerful international businessmen, statesmen, intelligence agents, mercenaries, assassins, and selfless freedom fighters.
Meet Giles, the ex-Green Beret who escorted a convoy of medicine and milk through mountains patrolled by Serb death squads; meet Ramiz, a Bosnian who sided with the Croatians against Milosevic, then found them not much less hostile to his kind; meet Peter, once one of Tito’s team of undercover enforcers, who kept the pressure on expatriate Yugoslavians in foreign countries, and who still had covert connections to those who held the money and power in Bosnia.
Meet Angelo, a man of deep traditional honor, of commitment and action, a passionately patriotic American caught not in the middle of the fray, but far away in a beautiful place, and desperately determined to still have an effect.
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Bajram Angelo Koljenovic
Angelo was raised in the Montenegrin highland village of Gusinje. Grandson of an Ottoman officer, son of a pioneer Communist, and one of the Muslim minority, he served in the Army of Yugoslavia before emmigrating to the United States in 1969. In Las Vegas, Nevada, he worked in the great casinos, teaching martial arts to the bodyguards of some of the celebrities who became his friends, looking out for the personal interests of some particularly important guests, and eventually owning his own restaurant.
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Angelo was raised in the Montenegrin highland village of Gusinje. Grandson of an Ottoman officer, son of a pioneer Communist, and one of the Muslim minority, he served in the Army of Yugoslavia before emmigrating to the United States in 1969. In Las Vegas, Nevada, he worked in the great casinos, teaching martial arts to the bodyguards of some of the celebrities who became his friends, looking out for the personal interests of some particularly important guests, and eventually owning his own restaurant.
"I want to express my deep love of life, and of people everywhere, and my great appreciation for my adopted homeland in America. This book is a very personal exhortation to all other Muslim Americans to stand up and proclaim our patriotism, and to all Americans to understand that the Muslim religion is very much in accord with the American way of peace, tolerance, and freedom."
Angelo now lives in Las Vegas with his wife Man Kiu and their children, still doing the work he loves meeting people in the grand resort hotels and welcoming them from all over the world to his town.
