Scenes From Anti-Nazi War
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ISBN: 0853455880 / Publisher: Monthly Review Press, January 1980
A former member of the British SOE recounts his experiences with underground movements in Italy and Yugoslavia during World War II, and discusses their revolutionary goals
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In this lively and instructive memoir of his experience with the anti-Nazi underground in Italy and Yugoslavia during World War II, Basil Davidson throws needed light on a much-neglected part of European history. Sent to the area as a representative of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), he is able to recount at first hand the intense determination of the revolutionary partisans, who hoped that their sacrifices would lead to a new society, and the equally determined policy of the Allies to suppress them.
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