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Beacons in the Night: With the OSS and Titoâ s Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#266497
Titel	Beacons in the Night: With the OSS and Titoâ s Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia
Auteur	Lindsay, Franklin
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Stanford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1993
ISBN10	0804725888
ISBN13	9780804725880
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	At midnight on May 14, 1944, the blinking of a flashlight in mountainous, German-occupied Yugoslavia signaled the parachute drop of four American OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers who were met by a group of Tito's Partisans. One of the OSS officers was Franklin Lindsay. Only with the declassification in the 1980s of wartime American and British archives could he undertake to reconstruct his day-to-day experiences in a war area of constantly changing conditions and ever-present danger. In the closing months of the war, Lindsay became the commander of the American Military Mission to Tito's new Communist government, and he describes the consolidation of Tito's power over the civil population, the final defeat of the Chetniks, and the elimination of all other political opposition.... (Lees verder) Directly pertinent to contemporary developments in the former Yugoslavia are Lindsay's observations of the savage ethnic and religious hatreds. Though the seeds of the present violent breakup of Yugoslavia were sown in earlier centuries, they were given powerful reinforcement by wartime atrocities.
Pagina's	383
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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