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Shadows on the Mountain: The Allies, the Resistance, and the Rivalries That Doomed WWII Yugoslavia Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

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Author: Kurapovna, Marcia
ISBN: 9780470084564

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An in-depth look at a crucial, little-known World War II episode-the failed Allied policy in Yugoslavia and its ramifications in the Balkans and beyond

Winston Churchill called it one of his biggest wartime failures--the shift of British and U.S. support from Yugoslavia's Draza Mihailovic and his royalist resistance movement to Tito and his communist Partisans. This book illuminates the complex reasons behind that failure through the incredible story of what has been called the greatest rescue of Allied airmen from behind enemy lines in World War II history, a rescue executed, incredibly, with minimal official support from the United States and none such support from Great Britain.

Recounts an unknown chapter of World War II history and the single largest rescue operation of the war
Starting with Serbia's tragedy and triumph in World War II through civil war in Yugoslavia during World War I, focuses on the history of the Balkans, a tragically misunderstood part of the world
Sheds new light on the OSS-SOE relationship and manipulations of intelligence that profoundly altered policy decision making
Reveals how failed Allied policy set the stage for Yugoslavia's breakup in the 1990s
Details the wartime camaraderie of unlikely warriors who became fast friends, outcasts, and heroes in executing the rescue

Written with the drama of a novel and the insight of serious history, Shadows on the Mountain is essential reading for anyone interested in World War II, European history, and the Balkans.

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A powerful true story of heroism, triumph, and betrayal

Why would a former U.S. Army Air Corps major spend decades of his post-war life trying to convince Congress, the State Department, and numerous presidents to defend, and later to honor posthumously, a man who was convicted of war crimes and executed by firing squad under British orders and with American compliance? The answer to this strange question takes you deep inside war-torn Yugoslavia as hard-pressed resistance groups battle the Nazis and each other, and downed Allied airmen struggle desperately to avoid capture and find a way home. "Shadows on the Mountain" tells one of the most gripping, heroic, and tragic war stories you'll ever read.

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Title Shadows on the Mountain: The Allies, the Resistance, and the Rivalries That Doomed WWII Yugoslavia
Author Marcia Kurapovna
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 336
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Trade Paper Press, Hoboken
Date 2009-12-01
Features Dust Cover, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian
ISBN 9780470084564 / 0470084561
Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
Dimensions 9.36 x 6.38 x 1.1 in (23.77 x 16.21 x 2.79 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Balkan
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Diplomatic history, Tito, Josip Broz
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009009772
Dewey Decimal Code 940.542

About the author

Marcia Christoff Kurapovna is a former international affairs correspondent with an academic background in East European history. She has lived in and reported from southeastern Europe, Cairo, London, New York, and Washington, D.C. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal Europe, the International Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, the Economist, and Foreign Affairs. She is now a full-time writer and lives in Vienna, Austria, with her fiance, Dr. Johannes Eltz.