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A Small War in the Balkans: British Military Involvement in Wartime Yugoslavia 1941-1945
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Written by one of the last survivors of the campaign, this book is a fascinating inside account of one of the Second World Wars most exciting yet controversial episodes: the difficult, dangerous but eventually victorious attempt by Britain to decisively influence the course of the war in the Balkans. The Yugoslav war was a savage and many-sided conflict in which Germans, Italians, Communist Partisans, Serbian Royalists; Croatian Fascists and eventually Stalins Russians all played their part. Britains intervention was fraught with political as well as military problems from first to last. Controversy continues over Londons decision to switch support from Milhailovics monarchist Cetnik guerillas to Titos more militarily effective Communist Partisans. Some famous names were among the liasion missions parachuted in to join the Partisans in their mountain lairs, including politician and travel writer Fitzroy Maclean; the Prime Ministers son Randolph Churchill; novelist Evelyn Waugh and historian WIlliam Deakin. McConvilles book concentrates on the lesser-known post -1943 period when torpedo and gunboats operating among the islands of the Dalmatian coast replaced the risky airdrops, and British soldiers and sailors fought alongside the Partisans, both male and female. The author was stationed on the island of Vis as a young subaltern, and offers a valuable eye-witness history and a vivid memoir of a vital moment in a war whose echoes persisted into the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.
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