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Storms over the Balkans during the Second World War /

In a new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, Alfred J. Rieber explores the tangled political rivalries, cultural clashes, and armed conflicts among the great powers and the indigenous people competing for influence and domination. The study takes an original app...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rieber, Alfred J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Balkan Peninsula.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Balkans.
HISTORY.
World War II.
Military.
20th Century.
Modern.
Balkan Peninsula
1939-1945
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Storms over the Balkans During the Second World War
  • Copyright
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • Introduction
  • The Balkans as Region
  • A Geography of Contrasts
  • Irregular Warfare
  • Kaleidoscopic Mix of Populations
  • Prolonged State Building and Foreign Intervention
  • The Austrians and Hungarians
  • The Russians
  • The Italians
  • New Atmospheric Conditions
  • Leadership
  • PART ONE: THE STORMS BREAK
  • 1: Mussolini
  • 1.1 Spazio vitali
  • 1.2 The First Fascist Trophy
  • 1.3 Enemy Number One
  • 1.4 The Brutal Friendship
  • 1.5 Mussolini and Slovenia
  • 1.6 Patronizing Terrorists
  • 1.7 From Dalmatia to Epirus
  • 1.8 The Albanian Protectorate
  • 1.9 From Dreams to Nightmare
  • 2: Hitler
  • A Greater Germany
  • Making Germans Again
  • Danubian Illusions
  • Racial Policy Compromised: Croatia
  • Caught in the Crossfire
  • A Serbian Puppet
  • Ambivalent Collaborators-the Chetniks
  • Decline and Fall
  • The Albanian Exception
  • 3: Stalin
  • The Defensive Glacis
  • Transitions to Socialism
  • 4: Churchill
  • Appeasing Italy
  • The Mediterranean Strategy
  • Linking Up with the Partisans
  • The Greek Connection
  • 5: Tito
  • Tito as Leader
  • A People's Liberation
  • The Montenegro Rising
  • The Federal Idea
  • The Croatian Challenge
  • The Slovenes: "Something Special"
  • PART TWO: WIND RISING FROM THE EAST
  • 6: Early Signs
  • The Crisis over Trieste
  • Piecing Together the New Yugoslavia
  • Tito Spreads His Wings
  • A Balkan Federation
  • Engaging the Albanians
  • 7: A Chill Sets In
  • The Greek Imbroglio
  • The Dénouement
  • Tito's Fading Vision
  • Conclusion: Storms Abate but then Build up
  • Select Bibliography of Primary Sources
  • Archives
  • Published Documentary Collections
  • Memoirs, Diaries
  • Collected Works
  • Periodicals
  • Index