Title: Viaţa şi aventurile unui cioban român în Bulgaria în vremuri de război
Description: „Martor al unei epoci desfigurate de ura si resentimente, un cioban pornit din Muscel ne lasa in insemnarile sale - nestiute de nimeni timp de o suta de ani - o radiografie a traumelor prin care trece o lume in vremuri de razboi. Destinele unor generatii intregi se joaca la ruleta deciziilor pe care elitele politice le iau in momentele cruciale din istoria natiunii lor. Marele Razboi este o astfel de rascruce. Fie ca au pariat corect, fie ca au gresit, oamenii politici ai vremii sunt cei la care ne gandim atunci cand judecam trecutul. Ignoram astfel soarta celor multi, pe umerii carora s-a sprijinit si ridicat o tara. Aventurierul Nicolae Sucu ne impinge, astazi, sa facem un exercitiu de imaginatie si sa privim altfel epopeea Romaniei Mari"--Daniel Cain

Witnessing an era disfigured by hatred and resentment, a shepherd from Muscel leaves us in his notes - unknown to anyone for a hundred years - an x-ray of the traumas that a world goes through in times of war. The destinies of whole generations are played at the roulette wheel of the decisions that the political elites take at the crucial moments in the history of their nation. The Great War is such a crossroads. Whether they bet right or wrong, the politicians of the time are the ones we think of when judging the past. We thus ignore the fate of many, on whose shoulders a country was supported and raised. The adventurer Nicolae Sucu pushes us, today, to do an exercise of imagination and to look differently at the epic of Greater Romania.
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918, Personal narratives, Shepherds, Diaries
Places: Romania, Bulgaria, Balkan Peninsula
People: Nicolae S. Şucu (1886-1967)