Summary
Jože Pirjevec: Partisans
Slovenian historian and academician Jože Pirjevec in this monumental book presented the partisan resistance movement against the Nazis and fascists and their domestic helpers in the territory of the dismembered Yugoslav state during the Second World War. It is a work created after many decades of reading rich memoirs and other literature about partisans, but also studying rich scientific production and extensive original material from archives throughout Europe and the United States of America. The author does not only deal with the internal military-political dynamics of the liberation movement, but places his story in a wider context, paying significant attention to the international aspect of the partisan movement, its acceptance into the anti-fascist coalition, and the balancing act between the Soviet Union and the Western allies. He showed the activities of the partisans in all parts of the divided and occupied country, the main battles (which took on a mythical dimension in post-war socialist Yugoslavia), the relations between the national resistance movements and the center around the Supreme Headquarters, and the relations within the partisan leadership led by Josip Broz Tito, issues of collaboration, resistance and revolution, as well as many brutal events in the war, including post-war massacres, which he objectively placed within the framework of the European war.
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