A Small War in the Balkans: British Military Involvement in Wartime Yugoslavia 1941-1945

 

This book is the story of the British military involvement in Yugoslavia in the Second World War. Much has been written about the men who served with the British Military Mission to Marshal Tito's Partisans, among them William Deakin, Fitzroy Maclean, Evelyn Waugh and Randolph Churchill. Little, however, is known about the post-1943 period, when for seventeen months British commandos, gunners and special forces fought alongside the Partisans in the Dalmatian islands and in Montenegro when the motor torpedo boats and motor guide boats of the Royal Navy ruled the waves of the Yugoslav Adriatic coast; and when the Allied air forces supplied the Partisans with massive logistic and tactical support. A Small War in the Balkans seeks to rectify that omission. Michael McConville, who as a young subaltern went out to Vis as a replacement, writes with elegance and an informative informality of the events that took place. Describing actions that have repercussions to this day, his account is forthright and fascinating, and is essential reading for students of warfare and of the Second World War.

 

Michael McConville

Hardcover with d/w 336pp Macmillan 1986 1st Ed

 

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Book Code:  SA1554