The Embattled Mountain

The epic of Durmitor, which has passed into legend, sets the frame of this book, which is also the story of one British mission in the Balkans during the Second World War.
British military mission to Montenegro and Tito's headquarters. The mountain is Durmitor and it is an epic story of partisan war.

ON 28TH MAY 1943 THE AUTHOR TOGETHER WITH CAPTAIN STUART AND A SMALL PARTY WERE PARACHUTED INTO THE HIGHLANDS OF MONTENEGRO. THESE TWO OFFICERS COMMANDED THE FIRST BRITISH MILITARY MISSION TO TITO'S HEADQUARTERS, THEY LANDED UNAWARES INTO THE MOST CRITICAL AXIS POPERATION AGAINST THE YUGOSLAV PARTISAN MOVEMENT, WHOSE MAIN FORCE OF 4 DIVISIONS BURDENED WITH 3000 WOUNDED WERE ENCIRCLED ON THE EMBATTLED MOUNTAIN OF DURMITOR, BY DOUBLE THERE NUMBER HEADED BY GERMAN MOUNTAIN AND SS TROOPS ,SUPPORTED BY ARTILLERY AND AIRCRAFT.THIS STORY OF THE BREAKING OF THE ENEMY RING IS A CLASSICAL STUDY IN PARTISAN WAR.

FWD Deakin
Hardcover with d/w 284pp fold-out map at rear Oxford
University Press 1971 1st Ed

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