Shadows on the Mountain: The Allies, the Resistance, and the Rivalries that Doomed WWII Yugoslavia

339 Pages·2009·2.87 MB·English

by  Marcia Kurapovna

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Shadows on the
Mountain
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Shadows on the
Mountain
The Allies, the Resistance, and the
Rivalries That Doomed WWII
Yugoslavia
Marcia Christoff Kurapovna
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Copyright © 2010 by Marcia Christoff Kurapovna. All rights reserved
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey
Published simultaneously in Canada
Map on p. xvi, UN Cartographic Section, map of Former Yugoslavia, no. 3689 Rev. 12 June 2007
Photo credits: pp. 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158 (top and bottom left), National Archives,
College Park, Maryland, OSS Still Pictures, File 226; pp. 158 (bottom right), 159, 160, the
Bildarchiv, World War II, Austrian National Library, Vienna.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Kurapovna, Marcia.
Shadows on the mountain : the Allies, the resistance, and the rivalries that doomed WWII
Yugoslavia / Marcia Kurapovna.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-470-08456-4 (cloth: alk. paper)
1. World War, 1939–1945—Yugoslavia. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Underground
movements—Yugoslavia. 3. Yugoslavia—History—Axis occupation, 1941–1945.
4. Yugoslavia—Foreign relations 1918–1945. 5. Great Britain—Foreign relations—
Yugoslavia. 6. Yugoslavia—Foreign relations—Great Britain. 7. World War,
1939–1945—Diplomatic history. 8. Mihailovic, Dra˘za, 1893–1946. 9. Tito, Josip Broz,
1892–1980. I. Title.
D802.Y8K85 2009
940.54'2197—dc22
2009009772
Printed in the United States of America
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In memory of my forever loved and
so much missed brother, Douglas
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You shall read that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but
you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends.
—Cosimo I de’ Medici, d. 1574 (attributed)
Belgrade, which glistened in his nostalgia like human laughter
through tears.
—On the homecoming of Serbian writer and
war veteran Miloš Crnjanski
Serbia is a great mystery.
The day doesn’t know what the night contrives
Nor the night, what the dawn gives birth to;
The bush doesn’t know what the next bush dreams
Nor the bird what goes on
Among the boughs. . . .
In that land the enemy
May not trust in the hare’s track
Nor in the print of the oxen’s hooves
There are perhaps secret resolutions
In the Reapers’ songs
And the strokes of the woodcutter’s axe
And the hidden lullaby from the cradle
—Desanka Maksimovi,
A REMINISCENCE OF THE UPRISING
(Spomen na Ustanak), 1946
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