A Balkan Tragedy--Yugoslavia, 1941-1946

A Balkan Tragedy--Yugoslavia, 1941-1946
Title A Balkan Tragedy--Yugoslavia, 1941-1946 PDF eBook
Author Zvonimir Vukovich
Publisher
Pages 376
Release 2004
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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The memoirs of Zvonimir Vuckovich, participant in the nationalist resistance of General Dragoljub-Draza Mihailovich are among the most important sources for the study of the Yugoslav resistance during the nazi occupation in World War II.

The Balkans in the Cold War: Balkan Federations, Cominform, Yugoslav-Soviet Conflict

The Balkans in the Cold War: Balkan Federations, Cominform, Yugoslav-Soviet Conflict
Title The Balkans in the Cold War: Balkan Federations, Cominform, Yugoslav-Soviet Conflict PDF eBook
Author Pavlović, Vojislav G.
Publisher Balkanološki institut SANU
Pages 331
Release 2011-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 8671790738

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Last Words

Last Words
Title Last Words PDF eBook
Author Boris J. Todorovich
Publisher Walker & Company
Pages 319
Release 1989
Genre History
ISBN 9780802710673

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The story of Boris Todorovich, soldier in battle against the Germans, war prisoner, escapee, and instrumental in memorialzing General Mihailovich

War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945

War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945
Title War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945 PDF eBook
Author Jozo Tomasevich
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 862
Release 2002-10
Genre History
ISBN 0804779244

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This is a meticulously researched history of the rule of the Axis powers in occupied Yugoslavia, along with the role of the other groups that collaborated with them—notably the extremist Croatian nationalist organization known as the Ustashas.

Like Salt for Bread. The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Like Salt for Bread. The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Title Like Salt for Bread. The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina PDF eBook
Author Francine Friedman
Publisher BRILL
Pages 968
Release 2021-11-22
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004471057

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A numerically small Jewish community helped their ethnically embattled neighbors in a neutral, humanitarian way to survive the longest modern siege, Sarajevo, in the early 1990s.

Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945

Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
Title Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945 PDF eBook
Author Halik Kochanski
Publisher Liveright Publishing
Pages 900
Release 2022-05-24
Genre History
ISBN 1324091665

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New Yorker • Best Books of 2022 “This is the most comprehensive and best account of resistance I have read. It addresses the story with scholarly objectivity and an absolute lack of sentimentality. So much romantic twaddle is still published . . . it is marvelous to read a study of such breadth and depth, which reaches balanced judgments.” —Max Hastings, The Sunday Times (UK) Resistance is the first book of its kind: a monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony in Europe into a single, sweeping narrative of defiance. “To resist, therefore. But how, when and where? There were no laws, no guidelines, no precedents to show the way . . .” —Dutch resister Herman Friedhoff In every country that fell to the Third Reich during the Second World War, from France in the west to parts of the Soviet Union in the east, a resistance movement against Nazi domination emerged. And every country that endured occupation created its own fiercely nationalist account of the role of homegrown resistance in its eventual liberation. Halik Kochanski’s panoramic, prodigiously researched work is a monumental achievement: the first book to strip these disparate national histories of myth and nostalgia and to integrate them into a definitive chronicle of the underground war against the Nazis. Bringing to light many powerful and often little-known stories, Resistance shows how small bands of individuals took actions that could lead not merely to their own deaths, but to the liquidation of their families and their entire communities. As Kochanski demonstrates, most who joined up were not supermen and superwomen, but ordinary people drawn from all walks of life who would not have been expected—least of all by themselves—to become heroes of any kind. Kochanski also covers the sheer variety of resistance activities, from the clandestine press, assistance to Allied servicemen evading capture, and the provision of intelligence to the Allies to the more violent manifestations of resistance through sabotage and armed insurrection. For many people, resistance was not an occupation or an identity, but an activity: a person would deliver a cache of stolen documents to armed partisans and then seamlessly return to their normal life. For Jews under Nazi rule, meanwhile, the stakes at every point were life and death; resistance was less about national restoration than about mere survival. Why resist at all? Who is the real enemy? What kind of future are we risking our lives for? These and other questions animated those who resisted. With penetrating insight, Kochanski reveals that the single quality that defined resistance across borders was resilience: despite the constant arrests and executions, resistance movements rebuilt themselves time and time again. A landmark history that will endure for decades to come, Resistance forces every reader to ask themselves yet another question, this distinct to our own times: “What would I have done?”

Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present

Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present
Title Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present PDF eBook
Author Max Boot
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 616
Release 2013-01-15
Genre History
ISBN 0871403501

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New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book (Nonfiction) Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Foreign Policy A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection “Destined to be the classic account of what may be the oldest... hardest form of war.” —John Nagl, Wall Street Journal Invisible Armies presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, which demonstrates that, far from the exception, loosely organized partisan or guerrilla warfare has been the dominant form of military conflict throughout history. New York Times best-selling author and military historian Max Boot traces guerrilla warfare and terrorism from antiquity to the present, narrating nearly thirty centuries of unconventional military conflicts. Filled with dramatic analysis of strategy and tactics, as well as many memorable characters—from Italian nationalist Guiseppe Garibaldi to the “Quiet American,” Edward Lansdale—Invisible Armies is “as readable as a novel” (Michael Korda, Daily Beast) and “a timely reminder to politicians and generals of the hard-earned lessons of history” (Economist).