This novel was published in 2005 and is dedicated to Jovan Bijelić - Joja. He is a fearless hero of Potkozarje and Kozara. He was an inspiration to many publicists, writers and filmmakers.
Karan describes a fighter who followed the vow of grandfathers and fathers. He opposed to everyone who wanted to destroy Kozara homes and their Serb seeds. Joja's speculation is national - he does not want to kill, but he knows that he is forced to do so. He captured a machine gun "Brno", which is his mother and father, while his comrades are brothers by blood and guns.
Joja was observed from the moment when he experienced his first war fire on Kruskovac, above Dubica through the battles on Kozara, Grmeč, Bihać, and in the battles on the route to the Drina river and Serbia, until the day after completed three-year war, when he left his machine gun. Then Joja, not willingly, goes to work in the background.
Through hero's war time one can find all details about the most important battles on Kozara and in Krajina (with Joja's reflections on bitter events in Yugoslavia and Europe, from time to time), especially in the first days of uprising, Kozara and Grmeč enemy offensive operations, the battle for Banja Luka and other major battles. The pictures of refuges and suffered innocent Serbs in front of the Croatian Ustashe and German Nazi soldiers are very
Karan creates testimony about Joja, Kozara Army Unit and Kozara Fifth Army Brigade. The novel gives nice descriptions of the nature in Kozara and Potkozarje in the spring, summer and winter, mountain dawn, starry night ... hovering between dream and reality, hallucinations and other psychological survival of Karan's heros, then battles, marching , anticipation, hunger and thirst, hope and hopelessness ...