Parachutes, Patriots and Partisans
The Special Operations Executive and Yugoslavia 1941-1945
Heather Williams
"A fresh insight into a highly controversial topic....Williams's book represents the most comprehensive general analysis of SOE's activities as they relate to wartime Yugoslavia....
It will generate considerable interest both in Britain and abroad."
-Dr. Simon Trew, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
This book recounts the political and military activities of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), especially its relationship with British policy-makers, the Foreign Office, and the military high command. It also analyses SOE's relationship with the Yugoslav guerrilla movements, the Yugoslav government-in-exile, other secret organisations, and its U.S. counterpart (the OSS) and examines how rivalries among all these players influenced SOE activity in Yugoslavia.
Did SOE's involvement with the Yugoslav resistance contribute appreciably to the defeat of the Axis powers? By supporting first the royalist resistance led by the ill-fated General Draza Mihailovic and, when it proved unsatisfactory, switching to the Communist-led Partisans led by the future Marshal Tito, the British expected to gain military advantage from increased guerrilla activity. Because this was primarily designed to allay potential political conflict with Britain's Soviet ally, rather than benefit Yugoslavia itself, the long-term aims of the resistance movements were not taken into account. Thus the book contends that SOE's involvement in
Yugoslavia merely exacerbated the civil war.
HEATHER WILLIAMS is a specialist in Balkan, East European and Russian history who taught at the Universities of Southampton and Portsmouth, England, between 1990 and 2001. She worked on the East European desk of the BBC World Service during the revolutions of 1989-90.
xii, 256pp. Published January 2004
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