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Cutting-edge case studies examine the partisan and anti-partisan warfare which broke out across German-occupied eastern Europe during World War Two, showing how it was shaped in varied ways by factors including fighting power, political and economic structures, ideological and psychological influences, and the attitude of the wider population.
List of contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations/Glossary Notes on Contributors Introduction: Illuminating a Twilight World; B.Shepherd & J.Pattinson PART I: THE SOVIET UNION Foreword; E.Mawdsley Partisans, Civilians and the Soviet State: An Overview; K.Slepyan 'One senses danger from all sides, especially from fanatical civilians:' The 121st Infantry Division and Partisan War, June 1941-April 1942; J.Rutherford The Relationship between Soviet Partisans and the Civilian Population in Byelorussia under German Occupation, 1941-1944; A.Brakel The German Gendarmerie and Partisans in Belorussia, 1941-1944; E.Haberer Select Bibliography PART II: POLAND Foreword; P.Latawski The Armia Krajowa and the Development of Polish Partisan Warfare, 1939-1943; P.Latawski 'A Game of Cat-and-Mouse': The Gestapo Spy Network in Tomaschow Mazowiecki, Poland 1939-45; C.M.Hall Select Bibliography PART III: YUGOSLAVIA Foreword; K.Schmider Bloodier than Böhme: The 342nd Infantry Division in Serbia, 1941; B.Shepherd Integrated Warfare? The Germans and the Ustasa Massacres: Syrmia 1942; A.Korb An Uncivil War of Ideas: German, Partisan and Home Guard Propaganda in the Province of Ljubljana 1943-45; G.Kranjc Select Bibliography Index
About the author
ALEXANDER BRAKEL Policy Advisor to the Head of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Federal Parliament
ERICH HABERER Lecturer in Modern European History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
CLAIRE M HALL Doctoral Graduate, Hull University, UK
ALEXANDER KORB Lecturer and Doctoral Candidate, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
GREGOR KRANJC Lecturer in Modern Eastern European History, College of William& Mary, Virginia, USA
PAUL LATAWSKI Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK
EVAN MAWDSLEY Professor of International History, University of Glasgow, UK
JEFF RUTHERFORD Assistant Professor of History, Wheeling Jesuit University, West Virginia, USA
KLAUS SCHMIDER Senior Lecturer, War Studies Department, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK
KENNETH SLEPYAN Professor of Modern European History, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Summary
Cutting-edge case studies examine the partisan and anti-partisan warfare which broke out across German-occupied eastern Europe during World War Two, showing how it was shaped in varied ways by factors including fighting power, political and economic structures, ideological and psychological influences, and the attitude of the wider population.
