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Parachutes, Patriots, and Partisans The Special Operations Executive and Yugoslavia, 1941–1945 Heather Williams Secret agents, sabotage, and resistance in the Balkans Based on impressive research and new evidence, this history of the secret British wartime agency, the Special Operations Executive, in wartime Yugoslavia argues that SOE actions achieved little military advantage for the Allies and exacerbated the developing civil war among the forces of monarchist Drazha Mihailovic, Tito's partisans, and other guerilla groups. Heather Williams tracks SOE relations with the British Foreign office, policy-makers, and military high command; the Yugoslav guerrilla movements and exiled Yugoslav government; other secret organizations, and the American Office of Strategic Services, examining how rivalries among these players influenced the future of Yugoslavia. "Fresh insight into a highly controversial topic. . . . Williams's book represents the most comprehensive general analysis of SOE's activities as they relate to wartime Yugoslavia." —Simon Trew, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, England Heather Williams teaches modern history at the University of Southampton. Copublished with Hurst & Company, London Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

November 2003 292 pp.  6 x 9 Paper $19.95 s ISBN 978-0-299-19494-9 ADD TO CART The 2003 cloth edition, ISBN 978-0-299-19494-9, is out of print. Wisconsin edition for sale only in North America, South America and the Philippines.

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