Download or read book OSS and the Yugoslav Resistance 1943 1945 written by Kirk Ford and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfortunately, OSS personnel, who first began entering the country in the late summer of 1943, found themselves caught up in a ruthless civil war between Draza Mihailovich's Nationalists or Chetniks and Josip Broz Tito's Partisans.
Download or read book Mission Yugoslavia written by Blaž Torkar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the wartime activities of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Axis-controlled Yugoslavia during World War II, this book chronicles American policy, plans for sending aid and agents, and the establishment of the first training bases in North Africa and the Mediterranean. OSS missions and field operations with the Chetniks and Partisans are cataloged and analyzed for the first time, along with OSS views on Yugoslav border claims against Italy and Austria, the OSS position on Slovenia in postwar Yugoslavia, and the role of Yugoslavs cooperating within the OSS.
Download or read book Beacons in the Night written by Franklin Lindsay and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franlin Lindsay (f. 1916) beretter om sine oplevelser som agent for OSS i Jugoslavien fra maj 1944
Download or read book Pawns and Powerbrokers written by Thomas Kirkwood Ford and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work places emphasis on the social and political consequences of the resistance and the delicate and often frustrating attempts of OSS to derive maximum military advantage from two rival groups concurrently involved with fighting the Axis as well as each other. One unfortunate result of this was that as the defeat of Germany became more and more apparent, military considerations were subordinated to civil conflict. The impact of this change on the intelligence-gathering and reporting operations of OSS has been considered in some detail to determine if a corresponding shift of priorities took place within the agency itself. Lastly, the degree of influence exercised by OSS on Allied policy decisions relating to Yugoslavia has also been examined"--Preface
Download or read book Pawns and Powerbrokers written by Kirk Ford and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pawns and Powerbrokers written by Thomas Kirkwood Jr Ford and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pawns and powerbrokers written by Thomas Kirkwood Ford (jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work places emphasis on the social and political consequences of the resistance and the delicate and often frustrating attempts of OSS to derive maximum military advantage from two rival groups concurrently involved with fighting the Axis as well as each other. One unfortunate result of this was that as the defeat of Germany became more and more apparent, military considerations were subordinated to civil conflict. The impact of this change on the intelligence-gathering and reporting operations of OSS has been considered in some detail to determine if a corresponding shift of priorities took place within the agency itself. Lastly, the degree of influence exercised by OSS on Allied policy decisions relating to Yugoslavia has also been examined" -- Pref.
Download or read book Shadows on the Mountain written by Marcia Kurapovna and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at a crucial, little-known World War II episode—the failed Allied policy in Yugoslavia and its ramifications in the Balkans and beyond Winston Churchill called it one of his biggest wartime failures—the shift of British and U.S. support from Yugoslavia's Draža Mihailovic and his royalist resistance movement to Tito and his communist Partisans. This book illuminates the complex reasons behind that failure through the incredible story of what has been called the greatest rescue of Allied airmen from behind enemy lines in World War II history, a rescue executed, incredibly, with minimal official support from the United States and none such support from Great Britain. Recounts an unknown chapter of World War II history and the single largest rescue operation of the war Starting with Serbia's tragedy and triumph in World War II through civil war in Yugoslavia during World War I, focuses on the history of the Balkans, a tragically misunderstood part of the world Sheds new light on the OSS-SOE relationship and manipulations of intelligence that profoundly altered policy decision making Reveals how failed Allied policy set the stage for Yugoslavia's breakup in the 1990s Details the wartime camaraderie of unlikely warriors who became fast friends, outcasts, and heroes in executing the rescue Written with the drama of a novel and the insight of serious history, Shadows on the Mountain is essential reading for anyone interested in World War II, European history, and the Balkans.
Download or read book Tito s Partisans Vs Mihailovic s Chetniks in World War II written by Mark A. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2003* with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Presumed Indif f erence written by Vojislav Pavlovic and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaping Into Darkness written by Caleb M Reilly and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Office of Strategic Services' (OSS) agents were a critical piece of the Allied effort to defeat the Axis powers in Yugoslavia. Their reports influenced and informed policy. Their collection activities resulted in timely, accurate intelligence that provided accurate targets for strategic bombing runs. Their efforts to support and supply the two main resistance groups-the monarchist Chetniks and the communist Partisans-were a lifeline to the beleaguered fighters in desperate need of war materiel. Their mission, then, was seemingly straightforward: support the resistance group that was doing the most damage to the Axis occupiers, while remaining aloof to postwar political considerations inside Yugoslavia. Yet, that charge proved too simplistic to reflect reality. The OSS agents who deployed into Yugoslavia faced longstanding ethnic conflicts that were too complex for them to comprehend, let alone the strategic decision-makers they informed with their reports. As agents navigated the violent country attempting to report the ground truth to officials in Washington, they came to believe that the strategists who sent them did not care for, nor understand, the Yugoslavs' plight. Up until this thesis, it has primarily been the strategists' lens through which readers have learned about the conflict. This thesis provides a look from the tactical level to the strategic level, with a focus on the OSS agents and their reports. In doing so, readers will gain a greater understanding for how strategic decisions affected tactical situations, and how OSS tactical actions and reports, in turn, provided strategists the valuable information needed to make their own consequential decisions.
Download or read book The Rape of Serbia written by Michael Lees and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1990 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There were two major resistance movements in Yugoslavia during the war: Tito's Communist Partisans and Draza Mihailovic's Loyalist Chetniks. The author served as a British liaison officer with the latter in 1943 and 1944. His memoir... is a powerful indictment of British wartime policy in the Balkans and an elegy for Yugoslav victims of Tito."--Publishers Weekly website.
Download or read book The Big Three Allies and the European Resistance written by Associate Professor of Contemporary History Tommaso Piffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comparative and pan-European study of the Big Three's involvement in Resistance movements across wartime Europe. From Yugoslavia to Poland and from Greece to France and Italy, the book vividly depicts and sharply analyses how this proxy war shaped the history of the post-war settlement.
Download or read book Croatia Under Ante Pavelic written by Robert B. McCormick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ante Pavelic was the leader of the fascist party of Croatia (the Ustaše), who, on Adolf Hitler's instruction, became the leader of Croatia after the Nazi invasion of 1941. Paveli? was an extreme Croatian nationalist who believed that the Serbian people were an inferior race - he would preside over a genocide that ultimately killed an estimated 390,000 Serbs during World War II. Croatia under Ante Paveli? provides the full history of this period, with a special focus on the United States' role in the post-war settlement. Drawing on previously unpublished documents, Robert McCormick argues that President Harry S. Truman's Cold War priorities meant that Paveli? was never made to answer for his crimes. Today, the Ustaše remains difficult legacy within Croatian society, partly as a result of Paveli?' political life in exile in South America. This is a new account of US foreign policy towards one of the Second World War's most brutal dictators and is an essential contribution to Croatian war-time history.
Download or read book Savage Will written by Timothy M. Gay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of incredible true stories from The Great Escape to Argo, Savage Will recounts a tale of survival, daring, and evasion behind enemy lines: that of American medics and nurses stranded for two months in Nazi-occupied Albania. “Amazing.”—The Washington Times • “New and surprising.”—America in WWII • “A must-read espionage and survival story.”—Marcus Brotherton • “Wonderfully entertaining”—Alex Kershaw In 1943, men and women of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron boarded a routine flight from Sicily to the Italian mainland to care for wounded soldiers. En route, their plane drifted hundreds of miles off course and crash-landed in remote mountainous Albania. The unarmed Americans were trapped hundreds of blizzard-plagued miles from Allied lines, in a country torn apart by rival bands of pro- and anti-German guerrillas. Hunted by German soldiers, the castaways relied on what one survivor called their “savage will” to elude their enemy and find their way to freedom. What followed is the most thrilling untold story of World War II—a saga reaching from President Roosevelt and top Allied intelligence officials to a host of brave Albanian Resistance fighters, the British and U.S. Mediterranean air forces, and the dashing English lieutenant and the tenacious American captain sent behind enemy lines to carry out a heroic rescue.
Download or read book The Secret War in the Balkans written by Richard H. Kraemer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II was the most important event of the twentieth century. Sixty three nations took part, engaging more than 100 million soldiers, sailors, and airmen. All of the major campaigns of that war have been thoroughly covered in print and film with one exception, the secret war in the Balkans. While raids by bombers and fighter attacks were routinely reported by both military and civilian news media, the nocturnal activities of the 60th Troop Carrier Group supplying the Balkan guerrillas remained "Top Secret." Beginning in March 1944, the 60th carried 7,000 tons of weapons and equipment to secret drop and landing zones in Axis-held territory in the Balkans. With this equipment, the guerrillas tied down half a million Axis troops prior to the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. What if the 60th Troop Carrier Group or the guerrillas had not done their job? Adolf Hitler would have been able to move eight or ten divisions to western France prior to D-Day. No on can say with certainty, but this writer's judgment is that the landings may well have failed. At the very least, the war would have been much longer and much more destructive. The importance of the Balkan supply drops to Allied victory in Europe has never been adequately recognized. The Secret War in the Balkans provides this heretofore missing chapter in the story of World War II.
Download or read book To Walk with the Devil written by Gregor J. Kranjc and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1941, when Slovenia was invaded by Germany, Italy, and Hungary, Slovenes faced at best assimilation, and at worst deportation or extermination. Still, a significant number of Slovenes would eventually collaborate with the Axis powers. Why were they so ready to work with their invaders, and why did the occupiers permit this collaboration? Gregor Joseph Kranjc investigates these questions in To Walk with the Devil, the first English-language book-length account of Slovene-Axis collaboration during the Second World War. Examining archival material and post-war scholarly and popular literature, Kranjc describes the often sharp divide between Communist-era interpretations of collaboration and those of their émigré anti-Communist opponents. Kranjc situates this divide in the vicious civil war that engulfed Slovenia during its occupation – a conflict that witnessed at its bloody climax the execution of over 10,000 Slovene collaborators and opponents of the new Communist Yugoslav regime in the wake of liberation. To Walk with the Devil makes clear how these grisly events continue to ripple through Slovene society today.
