Hitler's New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia

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Oxford University Press, 2008 - 256 страница
The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito. It was written by those who had battled hard to come out on top of the many-sided war fought across the territory of that Balkan state after the Axis Powers had destroyed it in 1941, just before Hitler's invasion of the USSR. It was an ideological and ethnic war under occupation by rival enemy powers and armies, between many insurgents, armed bands and militias, for the survival of one group, for the elimination of another, for belief in this or that ideology, for a return to an imagined past within the Nazi New Order, or for the reconstruction of a new Yugoslavia on the side of the Allies. In fact, many wars were fought alongside, and under cover of, the Great War waged by the Allies against Hitler's New Order which, in Yugoslavia at least, turned out to be a "new disorder". Most surviving participants have since told their stories; most archival sources are now available. Pavlowitch uses them, as well as the works of historians in several languages, to understand what actually happened on the ground. He poses more questions than he provides answers, as he attempts a synoptic and chronological analysis of the confused yet interrelated struggles fought in 1941-5, during the short but tragic period of Hitler's failed "New Order", over the territory that was no longer the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and not yet the Federal Peoples' Republic of Yugoslavia, but that is now definitely "former Yugoslavia".
 

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1 The End of the Kingdom of YugoslaviaAugust 1939April 1941
1
Hitlers New Disorder1941
21
3 Insurgents Left to Their Own Devices1942
91
4 The Allies Do Not Come the Italians Withdraw1943
151
5 The KPJ Liberates Conquers and Restores YugoslaviaJanuary 1944May 1945
215
The Death and Rebirth of Yugoslavia
271
Afterword
283
Dramatis Personae
291
Chronology
299
Bibliography
307
Index
325
Illustrations
341
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Born in Belgrade, Stevan K. Pavlowitch is the author of The Improbable Survivor: Yugoslavia and its Problems 1918-88, and Yugoslavia's Great Dictator Tito: A Reassessment and A History of the Balkans 1804-1945. He is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Southampton and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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