Invasion Balkans!
Subtitle: the German campaign in the Balkans, spring 1941
By: George E. Blau ; with a new foreword by John E. Jessup.
Contributors: Blau, George E.; Center of Military History.; United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History.
Publisher: Burd Street Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Shippensburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Balkan Peninsula.
Other titles: German campaign in the Balkans, spring 1941
Description: April 6, 1941, the mighty Wehrmacht invaded the Balkans. Hitler's generals believed they could quickly control that strategic land. With a surprise air attack on Belgrade and a Panzer assault on the borders designed to quickly capture key bridges, the Germans plunged into the Balkans. Twelve days later, on April 18, the Yugoslav army capitulated. But the Third Reich's true war for that land along Germany's routes east and south was only beginning.

Invasion Balkans!, long out of print and in demand, is the official United States Army study of that lightning campaign. Based on German military studies and balanced with American and Allied documents, Invasion Balkans! is a concise study of the strategic forces that drove Adolf Hitler to order that invasion and its immediate consequences.

Taking the reader through the air attacks and land battles that achieved such misleadingly fast but not decisive results, Invasion Balkans! shows how false optimism can easily arise in that violent land.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-158) and index.
An official United States Army collective study based on German documents; George E. Blau, of the Foreign Studies Branch, Special Studies Division, U.S. Army Center of Military History (formerly Office of the Chief of Military History), was the principal author and translator.
"First edition published November 1953 as Department of the Army pamphlet 20-260"--T.p. verso.
Rev. ed. of: The German campaigns in the Balkans, spring 1941. 1953.