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- catalog abstract "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, assisting 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.".
- catalog contributor b4037732.
- catalog coverage "Yugoslavia History Axis occupation, 1941-1945.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "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, assisting 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.".
- catalog description "Greetings First American -- A British Show -- A Hostile Brief -- Uninformed and Misinformed -- The Shape of Things to Come -- Their Return Overrides All Objections -- No Excuses or Apologies to Tito -- Kicking against the Pricks -- A Fait Accompli of Serious Potentialities.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 249 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "OSS and the Yugoslav resistance, 1943-1945.".
- catalog identifier "089096517X".
- catalog isFormatOf "OSS and the Yugoslav resistance, 1943-1945.".
- catalog isPartOf "Texas A & M University military history series ; 28".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "College Station : Texas A&M University Press,".
- catalog relation "OSS and the Yugoslav resistance, 1943-1945.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog spatial "Yugoslavia History Axis occupation, 1941-1945.".
- catalog spatial "Yugoslavia.".
- catalog subject "940.53/497 20".
- catalog subject "D802.Y8 F67 1992".
- catalog subject "United States. Office of Strategic Services History.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Secret service United States.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Yugoslavia.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Greetings First American -- A British Show -- A Hostile Brief -- Uninformed and Misinformed -- The Shape of Things to Come -- Their Return Overrides All Objections -- No Excuses or Apologies to Tito -- Kicking against the Pricks -- A Fait Accompli of Serious Potentialities.".
- catalog title "OSS and the Yugoslav resistance, 1943-1945 / Kirk Ford, Jr.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".