Recently the Central National Library “Djurdje Crnojevic” has received a gift of thirteen editions of the book “Life and Death in the Balkans: A family saga in a century of conflict” published in different languages from its author, Nebojsa Bato Tomasevic. This historical novel speaking of a century of important historic events through the Tomasevic family saga has been published so far in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Norway, China, Serbia, England, United States, Italy, Croatia and Albania.

Madge Phillips Tomasevic translated into English the abridged version of his story and the book came soon to be published. The oldest and most renowned Norwegian publishing house "Askehog” from Oslo promoted the book under the title “Ufred, En slektshistorie fra Balkan”. The book was also published by other renowned publishing houses: Schuyt &Co (the Netherlands), Campus Verlag GmbH (Germany), Hurst&Co (England), Columbia University Press (United States), Lint Editoriale (Italy), etc.  Wherever the book was presented, in particular in Norway, where the event was attended by the Prime Minister and his mother, the antifascist ideas the book is based one were warmly welcomed.

Bato Tomasevic, a distinguished diplomat and journalist, publisher of world reputation, author, initiator of the first commercial radio station in Eastern Europe, the first director of “Intel”, has been living in England since 1991. He has been engaging in publishing for full 40 years, and for 30 years he was at the head of the “Motovun Group Association” from Brussels, one of the largest publishing associations in the world, gathering 107 publishers from 27 countries. He is the author of over 60 luxurious monographs about Russia, China, the United States... Working on them, he got to know each country and their famous sights and natural beauties. Still, he likes the most the monograph of Montenegro, published in 2008 by Atlas Group and CID, where he wanted to present to the world its timeless beauty and make the readership more acquainted with it. After this monograph, Bato Tomasevic plans to offer to the world the monograph of Montenegrin painters, and then monographs of Montenegrin towns, Cetinje in particular .