On 18 October, "Retreat to Victory in 1915", a book by U.S. author Nancy Cramer, was presented on the premises of the Consulate General of the Republic of Serbia in New York.

While perusing the documents available at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, the author found out that during the war 20,000 Serbian young men, aged 12 to 16, were drafted and that only 5,000 of them had survived the horrors of the Great War. As she underlined, this story moved her deeply, above all as a mother of four but also as an elementary school teacher who devoted her entire career to children. This is what motivated her research into the role Serbia had in the Great War, which included visiting the country twice.



Presenting her book, Nancy Cramer spoke with a lot of inspiration about the feat of the Serbian Army that would go down in history as an unprecedented military tactical manoeuvre. She quoted the words of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson about Serbia in World War I:"While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken".

The event was attended by an audience of approximately two dozen, including The Right Rev. Bishop Irinej of Eastern America, and the Very Rev. Zivojin Jakovljevic, Dean of the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Sava in Manhattan.