Shadows on the mountain
Subtitle: the Allies, the resistance, and the rivalries that doomed WWII Yugoslavia
By: Marcia Kurapovna.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780470084564
Subjects: Mihailović, Draža, -- 1893-1946; Tito, Josip Broz, -- 1892-1980; World War, 1939-1945 -- Yugoslavia; World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia; World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history; Yugoslavia -- History -- Axis occupation, 1941-1945; Yugoslavia -- Foreign relations -- 1918-1945; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Yugoslavia; Yugoslavia -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
Description: This work is an in-depth look at the Balkans. It explores the roots of the 1990s breakup of Yugoslavia and ensuing instability, and unearths and exposes a failed Allied policy in Yugoslavia and communist-manipulated intelligence.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Lawrence of Yugoslavia : an Allied awakening inside a Civil War; title: The mountain at dawn; title: Lawrence of Yyugoslavia, II : into the Partisan-Chetnik Quagmire; title: The Balkan prize; title: Allied rivals, Allied destruction; title: A mission (nearly) impossible; title: Legends of blood and honor, the sad, strange end of the British-Mihailovic relationship; title: Their brother's keeper, the downfall of Soviet-Tito relations; title: Night into death into day; title: The unknown soldier; title: The red graveyard; title: The politics of surrender.