Beacons in the Night
With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia
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1993
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New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-2123-3 (ISBN)
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-2123-3 (ISBN)
"This is a 3-in-1 bargain: a gripping tale of adventure; a solid contribution to the history of World War II; and an illuminating introduction to the contemporary tragedy of Yugoslavia." -Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Lindsay's memoirs are largely based on newly declassified materials. 25 illustrations.
At midnight on May 14, 1944, the blinking of a flashlight in mountainous, German-occupied Yugoslavia signaled the parachute drop of four American OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers who were met by a group of Tito's Partisans. One of the OSS officers was Franklin Lindsay. Only with the declassification in the 1980s of wartime American and British archives could he undertake to reconstruct his day-to-day experiences in a war area of constantly changing conditions and ever-present danger. In the closing months of the war, Lindsay became the commander of the American Military Mission to Tito's new Communist government, and he describes the consolidation of Tito's power over the civil population, the final defeat of the Chetniks, and the elimination of all other political opposition. Directly pertinent to contemporary developments in the former Yugoslavia are Lindsay's observations of the savage ethnic and religious hatreds. Though the seeds of the present violent breakup of Yugoslavia were sown in earlier centuries, they were given powerful reinforcement by wartime atrocities.
At midnight on May 14, 1944, the blinking of a flashlight in mountainous, German-occupied Yugoslavia signaled the parachute drop of four American OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers who were met by a group of Tito's Partisans. One of the OSS officers was Franklin Lindsay. Only with the declassification in the 1980s of wartime American and British archives could he undertake to reconstruct his day-to-day experiences in a war area of constantly changing conditions and ever-present danger. In the closing months of the war, Lindsay became the commander of the American Military Mission to Tito's new Communist government, and he describes the consolidation of Tito's power over the civil population, the final defeat of the Chetniks, and the elimination of all other political opposition. Directly pertinent to contemporary developments in the former Yugoslavia are Lindsay's observations of the savage ethnic and religious hatreds. Though the seeds of the present violent breakup of Yugoslavia were sown in earlier centuries, they were given powerful reinforcement by wartime atrocities.
1. To Slovenia by parachute 2. Preparing for the mission 3. First days with the partisans 4. Crossing the border 5. Inside the Third Reich 6. Blowing up Germany's railroads 7. Night marches and hidden hospitals 8. The partisans organise a shadow government 9. Radios, codes and codebreakers 10. Liberation of a mountain valley 11. The lure of Austria 12. Failure in Austria 13. Revolution comes into the open 14. The German winter offensive begins 15. Ethnic and ideological wars in Croatia 16. Tito's government takes control in Belgrade 17. The defeat of the Chetniks 18. Communist rule becomes absolute 19. The Cold War begins in Trieste 20. In the wake of the hot war 21. How it all turned out Appendix Notes Index.
| Verlagsort | Palo Alto |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 771 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8047-2123-8 / 0804721238 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8047-2123-3 / 9780804721233 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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