Veljko Kovačević (19 December 1912 – 24 May 1994) was a Montenegrin general and writer.

Biography

He was born in Grahovo (part of

Nikšić Nikšić ( cnr, Никшић, italic=no, sr-cyrl, Никшић, italic=no; ), is the second largest city in Montenegro, with a total population of 56,970 located in the west of the country, in the centre of the spacious Nikšić field at the foot ...

) in the

Kingdom of Montenegro The Kingdom of Montenegro ( sr, Краљевина Црна Горa, Kraljevina Crna Gora) was a monarchy in southeastern Europe, present-day Montenegro, during the tumultuous period of time on the Balkan Peninsula leading up to and during World ...

. After abandoning the studies at the

Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences or the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb ( Croatian: ''Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu'') is one of the faculties of the University of Zagreb. History The Faculty of Philosophy is the oldest fac ...

in 1937 he volunteered in the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...

. After internment in France (1939–1941) as requested by the leadership of the Communist Party, he organized partisan units in Gorski Kotar and along the Croatian littoral. After the end of

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he held several senior military and government posts. In 1952 he finished the Higher Military Academy in Belgrade. He studied

military history Military history is the study of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to local and international relationships. Professional historians norma ...

, and war topics were a recurrent theme in his stories and novels. He died in

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Works

* ''U rovovima Španije'' (1958) * ''Kapelski kresovi'' (1961) * ''Mlada šuma'' (1966) * ''Gavrijada'' (1971) * ''Dani koji ne odlaze'' (I–II, 1985)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kovacevic, Veljko 1912 births 1994 deaths Military personnel from Nikšić Writers from Nikšić Yugoslav people of the Spanish Civil War Foreign volunteers in the Spanish Civil War Montenegrin communists Recipients of the Order of the People's Hero