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OSS and the Yugoslav Resistance, 1943-1945 Paperback - 1992

by Kirk Ford


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During the Second World War few countries provided a more difficult challenge for Gen. Wild Bill Donovan's Office of Strategic Services than did Yugoslavia. Working with its British counterpart, OSS sought to sustain the Yugoslav resistance in its struggle against the Axis occupiers. Unfortunately, OSS personnel, who first began entering the country in the late summer of 1943, found themselves caught up in a ruthless civil war between Draza Mihailovich's Nationalists or Chetniks and Josip-Broz Tito's Partisans. OSS enjoyed some notable successes, ferrying badly needed supplies to Tito in the fall of 1943, assisiting in the evacuation of hundreds of Allied airmen, and collecting valuable military and political intelligence. On the other hand, President Roosevelt's decision to allow Prime Minister Churchill to play the Allied hand in the Balkans meant that the agency would have almost no influence on Allied policy. Kirk Ford, Jr., has mined the recently declassified operational records of the OSS and conducted interviews or correspondence with more than sixty of the surviving participants of the events in Yugoslavia. His findings challenge the view of Mihailovich as collaborator and Tito as liberator while shedding new light on both the motives behind Allied policy decisions and the extent to which these decisions affected the internal balance of power in Yugoslavia. By telling the story of the dangers OSS operatives faced behind enemy lines and by tracing the relationship between the OSS and British intelligence, Ford reveals that intrigue, deception, and secrecy were not activities reserved exclusively for the enemy.

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  • Title OSS and the Yugoslav Resistance, 1943-1945
  • Author Kirk Ford
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 268
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Texas A&M University Press
  • Date 1992-12-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781585440405 / 158544040X
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.01 x 0.7 in (22.91 x 15.27 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92011220
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.54

About the author

KIRK FORD received the B.A. degree from William Carey College and the M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi. He specializes in modern military history, with emphasis on World War II and the Cold War. He is an associate professor of history at Mississippi College.
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