Terror in the Balkans
Subtitle: German armies and partisan warfare
By: Ben Shepherd
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780674048911
Subjects: Germany. Heer; Germany; Underground movements; World War, 1939-1945; History
Description: "Ben Shepherd ... uses Austro-Hungarian Army records to consider how the personal experiences of many Austrian officers during the Great War played a role in brutalizing their behavior in Yugoslavia. A comparison of Wehrmacht counter-insurgency divisions allows Shepherd to analyze how a range of midlevel commanders and their units conducted themselves in different parts of Yugoslavia, and why"--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the Great War : changes in the officer corps; title: Forging a wartime mentality : the impact of World War I; title: Bridging two Hells : the 1920s and 1930s; title: Invasion and occupation : Yugoslavia, 1941; title: Islands in an insurgent sea : the 704th Infantry Division in Serbia; title: Settling accounts in blood : the 342d Infantry Division in Serbia; title: Standing divided : the independent state of Croatia, 1942; title: Glimmers of sanity : the 718th Infantry Division in Bosnia; title: The morass : attitudes harden in the 718th Infantry Division; title: The Devil's Division : the 369th Infantry Division in Bosnia, 1943.