Shadows on the mountain : the Allies, the Resistance, and the rivalries that doomed WWII Yugoslavia
Details the unknown, unheralded, and misunderstood story of what Winston Churchill called one of his biggest wartime failures-- the shift of British and U.S. support from Yugoslavia's Draz̆a Mihailovi? and his royalist resistance movement to Communist Partisans under the command of Josip Broz Tito. This book illuminates the complex reasons behind that failure through what has come to be considered the greatest rescue of Allied airmen from behind enemy lines in World War II, a rescue executed, incredibly, with minimal official support from the United States and no such support from Great Britain. At the same time, the author takes into account all sides of this civil war conflict, including the heroism of the Yugoslav Partisans, the origins of the Croat nationalists, the unsung, outstanding sacrifices of the British "SOE" in Yugoslavia, Serb against Serb intrigue, as well as the German point of view. Among the figures is Major Linn M. "Slim" Farish, known to his OSS compatriots, with both awe and humor, as "Lawrence of Yugoslavia." The author presents a fascinating account of the highly complicated and bitterly successful campaign to undermine Mihailovi?'s standing with the British and the Americans, a campaign that was part Communist infiltration of and influence on British intelligence, part the renegade attitudes of the Serbian Chetniks themselves, and part gross misinformation, deliberate or accidental-- all of it leading to devastatingly tragic consequences. She also tells the heartbreaking story of Mihailovi?'s post-war trial and execution by firing squad and reveals why the United States, after awarding him the Legion of Merit posthumously in 1948, declared the award classified information. The award was made public in 1967 through the efforts of a U.S. congressman, and was presented to Mihailovi?'s seventy-four-year-old daughter
Nonfiction
xvi, 320 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
9780470084564, 0470084561
314380746
Lawrence of Yugoslavia : an Allied awakening inside a civil war
The mountain at dawn
Lawrence of Yugoslavia II : into the Partisan-Chetnik quagmire
The Balkan prize
Allied rivals, Allied destruction
A mission (nearly) impossible
Legends of blood and honor : the sad, strange end of the British-Mihailović relationship
Their brother's keeper : the downfall of Soviet-Tito relations
Night into death into day
The unknown soldier
The red graveyard
The politics of surrender
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