Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 144. Chapters: Dra a Mihailovi, Edward Spears, Anthony Eden, Edward VIII, Albert Ball, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Stanley Savige, Herbie Taylor, Arnold Potts, Brian Horrocks, Conn Smythe, Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Edmund Herring, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Sidney Reilly, Arthur Percival, James Hill (British Army officer), George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, Richard O'Connor, Eric Dorman-Smith. Excerpt: Dragoljub "Dra a" Mihailovi (Serbian Cyrillic: " "; also known as "Uncle Dra a"; 27 April 1893 - 17 July 1946) was a Yugoslav Serb general during World War II. A staunch royalist, he retreated to the mountains near Belgrade when the Germans overran Yugoslavia in April 1941 and there he organized bands of guerrillas known as the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army. The organisation is commonly known as the Chetniks, although the name of the organisation was later changed to the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland (JVUO, ). Founded as a royalist/nationalist Serb resistance movement, it was the first Yugoslav resistance movement to be formed, followed shortly by Josip Broz Tito's Partisans. Initially, the two groups operated in parallel, but by late 1941 began fighting each other in the attempt to gain control of the area following the end of the war. Many Chetnik groups collaborated or established modus vivendi with Axis powers. After the war, Mihailovi was tried and convicted of high treason and war crimes by the authorities of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, and executed by firing squad. The nature and extent of his responsibility for collaboration and ethnic massacres remain controversial. Serbian officers in the company of a British nurse on the Salonika front. Second lieutenant Dra a Mihailovi (kneeling).Born in Ivanjica, Kingdom of Serbia, Mihailovi was the son of a Court clerk. Orphaned at seven, he was raised by his paternal uncle in Belgrade. Both his uncles were military officers and he himself joined the Serbian military academy in October 1910. He fought as a cadet in the Balkan Wars 1912-1913. At the end of the First Balkan War, he was awarded the Silver Medal of valor. At the end of the Second Balkan War, during which he mainly led operations along the Albanian border, he was given the rank of Second Lieutenant as the top soldier in his class, ranked sixth at the Serbian military academy. He served in World WarWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Recipients of the Military Cross: Siegfried Sassoon, Mortimer Wheeler, Frederick Banting, Albert I of Belgium, Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden. To get started finding Recipients of the Military Cross: Siegfried Sassoon, Mortimer Wheeler, Frederick Banting, Albert I of Belgium, Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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146
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC, Wiki Series
Release
2012
ISBN
1153737256
Recipients of the Military Cross: Siegfried Sassoon, Mortimer Wheeler, Frederick Banting, Albert I of Belgium, Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 144. Chapters: Dra a Mihailovi, Edward Spears, Anthony Eden, Edward VIII, Albert Ball, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Stanley Savige, Herbie Taylor, Arnold Potts, Brian Horrocks, Conn Smythe, Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Edmund Herring, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Sidney Reilly, Arthur Percival, James Hill (British Army officer), George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, Richard O'Connor, Eric Dorman-Smith. Excerpt: Dragoljub "Dra a" Mihailovi (Serbian Cyrillic: " "; also known as "Uncle Dra a"; 27 April 1893 - 17 July 1946) was a Yugoslav Serb general during World War II. A staunch royalist, he retreated to the mountains near Belgrade when the Germans overran Yugoslavia in April 1941 and there he organized bands of guerrillas known as the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army. The organisation is commonly known as the Chetniks, although the name of the organisation was later changed to the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland (JVUO, ). Founded as a royalist/nationalist Serb resistance movement, it was the first Yugoslav resistance movement to be formed, followed shortly by Josip Broz Tito's Partisans. Initially, the two groups operated in parallel, but by late 1941 began fighting each other in the attempt to gain control of the area following the end of the war. Many Chetnik groups collaborated or established modus vivendi with Axis powers. After the war, Mihailovi was tried and convicted of high treason and war crimes by the authorities of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, and executed by firing squad. The nature and extent of his responsibility for collaboration and ethnic massacres remain controversial. Serbian officers in the company of a British nurse on the Salonika front. Second lieutenant Dra a Mihailovi (kneeling).Born in Ivanjica, Kingdom of Serbia, Mihailovi was the son of a Court clerk. Orphaned at seven, he was raised by his paternal uncle in Belgrade. Both his uncles were military officers and he himself joined the Serbian military academy in October 1910. He fought as a cadet in the Balkan Wars 1912-1913. At the end of the First Balkan War, he was awarded the Silver Medal of valor. At the end of the Second Balkan War, during which he mainly led operations along the Albanian border, he was given the rank of Second Lieutenant as the top soldier in his class, ranked sixth at the Serbian military academy. He served in World WarWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Recipients of the Military Cross: Siegfried Sassoon, Mortimer Wheeler, Frederick Banting, Albert I of Belgium, Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden. To get started finding Recipients of the Military Cross: Siegfried Sassoon, Mortimer Wheeler, Frederick Banting, Albert I of Belgium, Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.