Both a survivor?s memoir and a historian?s account of Britain?s intervention in the complex and brutal war-within-a-war in Yugoslavia. The author was a Royal Marine officer fighting alongside Tito?s partisans and offers an elegant and exciting account of

A Small War In The Balkans : British Military Involvement in Wartime Yugoslavia 1941-1945

History

McConville, Michael

Military

Macmillan

'I recommend this book as pure pleasure' says Molly Keane 'I found myself ecstatically immersed in the most entertaining and fascinating book I have read for a long time'. Having traced the origins of the Anglo-Irish, the author offers a colourful account of the rise and sudden disappearance of the Protestant oligarchy that dominated Irish life from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, and a general survey of Irish history.

Ascendancy to oblivion: The story of the Anglo-Irish

Europe

Quartet Books

The Anglo-Irish oligarchy gave Ireland much of her modern culture and architecture--but also left a legacy that has festered violently. A highly original, insightful look at the "Troubles" traces the rise and sudden disappearance of this elite group that so dominated Irish life from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. ".pure pleasure.the most entertaining and fascinating book I have read for a long time."--Molly Keane.

Ascendancy to Oblivion: The Story of the Anglo-Irish

Phoenix

Written by one of the last survivors of the campaign, this book is a fascinating inside account of one of the Second World War’s most exciting yet controversial episodes :the difficult, dangerous but eventually victorious attempt by Britain to decisively influence the course of the war in the Balkans. The Yugoslav war was a savage and many-sided conflict in which Germans, Italians, Communist Partisans, Serbian Royalists; Croatian Fascists and eventually Stalin’s Russians all played their part. Britain’s intervention was fraught with political as well as military problems from first to last. Controversy continues over London’s decision to switch support from Milhailovic’s monarchist Cetnik guerillas to Tito’s more militarily effective Communist Partisans. Some famous names were among the liasion missions parachuted in to join the Partisans in their mountain lairs, including politician and travel writer Fitzroy Maclean; the Prime Minister’s son Randolph Churchill; novelist Evelyn Waugh and historian WIlliam Deakin. McConville’s book concentrates on the lesser-known post -1943 period when torpedo and gunboats operating among the islands of the Dalmatian coast replaced the risky airdrops, and British soldiers and sailors fought alongside the Partisans, both male and female. The author was stationed on the island of Vis as a young subaltern, and offers a valuable eye-witness history and a vivid memoir of a vital moment in a war whose echoes persisted into the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

Small War in the Balkans: British Military Involvement in Wartime Yugoslavia 1941-1945

Naval and Military Press

Tell It to the Marines: A Royal Marines Ragbag

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Cross Publishing

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