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Beacons in the Night: With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia
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Beacons in the Night: With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia Hardcover - 1993

by Lindsay, Franklin

With an eye for vivid detail, Lindsay relates the crossing of the German frontier at night, and traces the evolution of Yugoslavia's Partisan leadership from underground Communist organizers to national political leaders. Photos.


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At midnight on May 14, 1944, the blinking of a flashlight in mountainous, German-occupied Yugoslavia signaled the parachute drop of four American OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers who were met by a group of Tito's Partisans. One of the OSS officers was Franklin Lindsay. Only with the declassification in the 1980s of wartime American and British archives could he undertake to reconstruct his day-to-day experiences in a war area of constantly changing conditions and ever-present danger. In the closing months of the war, Lindsay became the commander of the American Military Mission to Tito's new Communist government, and he describes the consolidation of Tito's power over the civil population, the final defeat of the Chetniks, and the elimination of all other political opposition. Directly pertinent to contemporary developments in the former Yugoslavia are Lindsay's observations of the savage ethnic and religious hatreds. Though the seeds of the present violent breakup of Yugoslavia were sown in earlier centuries, they were given powerful reinforcement by wartime atrocities.

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"Lindsay's memoir of his experiences as an American OSS officer with Tito's Partisans stands as a classic work of Resistance literature, but the book's overriding importance lies in its clarification of the ethnic/religious tensions that led to the present Balkan tragedy. . . . The book combines a rousing personal adventure story with new information on the Partisan contribution to the Allied war effort, and at the same time provides a useful lesson in Balkan history that is directly pertinent to the current bloodshed."--Publishers Weekly
"A cracking good tale of covert operations."--Roland Green

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  • Title Beacons in the Night: With the OSS and Tito's Partisans in Wartime Yugoslavia
  • Author Lindsay, Franklin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 434
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
  • Date 1993
  • ISBN 9780804721233
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/15/1993, Page 124
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/26/1993, Page 0
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