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On 28 May 1943 the author of this book was parachuted, together with Captain Stuart and a small party, to the highlands of Montenegro. These two officers commanded the first British military mission to Tito’s headquarters. They landed unawares in the middle of the most critical Axis operation as yet mounted against the Yugoslav partisan movement, whose main forces of four divisions, lightly armed and burdened with three thousand wounded, were encircled on the ‘Embattled Mountain’ of Durmitor - the symbol of this book - by double their number, headed by German mountain and SS troops, supported by artillery and aircraft.This account of the breaking of the enemy ring is a classical study in partisan war.The epic of Durmitor, which has passed into Yugoslav legend, sets the frame of this book, which is also the story of one British wartime mission in the Balkans. It portrays the figures of Tito and his immediate collaborators, and the nature and structure of the Yugoslav Partisan forces and their military and political organization as seen at the time, without the studied intrusion of hindsight.Although rooted in the personal experiences and memories of the author, this is not primarily

Author

Frederick William Dampier Deakin

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192151759

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

3.9 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14