Danilo Šarenac

Danilo Šarenac is a senior researcher employed at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade. His main field of study is cultural history of the First World War. He also studies history of banditry in the Balkans as well as culture of memory. He has contributed articles to several international volumes about the Great War.

The project 

Title: The Artillery Myth: How did the Serbian Public get it Wrong? French Military Assistance to Serbia in 1914

Keywords: The First World War, history of violence, history of technology

Selected publications

• “Why did nobody control Apis?: Serbian Military Intelligence and the Sarajevo Assassinations” in Sarajevo 1914, ed. Mark Cornwall, Bloomsbury Academic: London, 2020, 125-149.
• “A View of the Disaster and Victory from below: Serbian Roma Soldiers, 1912–1918”, Social Inclusion 2020, Volume 8, Issue 2: 277–285.
• “Golgotha: the retreat of the Serbian army and civilians in 1915-16”, in Europe on the Move. Refugees in the Era of the Great War, eds. Peter Gatrell and Lyubov Zhvanko, Manchester University Press: Manchester 2017, 236-259.
• Top, vojnik i sećanje. Srbija i Prvi svetski rat [Cannon, Soldier and Memory. Serbia and the First World War 1914-2009], ISI: Beograd 2014.