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020			_a 9781472842039
040			_c DE-MUS-47615
100			_aNigel Thomas (Verfasser) _93124
245			_aYugoslav armies 1941-45 / Nigel Thomas, Dušan Babac, Johnny Shumate
260			_aOxford _bOsprey Publishing _c2022
300			_a48 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
500			_a"This volume describes, lists, and illustrates the several combatant forces raised in Yugoslavia during World War II. In March 1941, an anti-German coup in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia prompted Hitler to order an invasion using allied Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian. and Romanian forces. Operation Marita was an invasion of Yugoslavia and simultaneously Greece. At the same time, the constituent region of Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia and joined the Axis powers. Royal Yugoslav armed forces, despite advancing against the Italians in Albania were forced to surrender after 11 days' fighting and some 1,000 soldiers, airmen, and sailors escaped to British-occupied Egypt to form Free Yugoslav units. From there, guerrilla resistance to the Axis occupiers broke out and continued with increasing strength until the end of the war under Mihailovic's royalist 'Chetniks' and Tito's Communist 'Partisans' (both supported by Britain). However, hostilities between the two movements eventually led to the Chetniks entering into local agreements with Italian occupation forces and Britain switching its support entirely to the Partisans. The advance of the Red Army increased Partisan strength and, during 1944-45, they created what could be described as a lightly equipped conventional army." --Publisher description
653			_aJugoslawen ; jugoslawische Armee ; Uniformen ; Rangabzeichen
942			_2z _cBÜCHER _n0
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