Partisan Warfare 1941-45

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Osprey Publishing, 1983 - History - 40 pages
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During 1941 the Germans occupied first Greece and the former Yuogslavia, then enormous areas of European Russia. Once the front line troops had moved on the struggle continued as bands of resistance fighters waged war against the occupation forces until their final withdrawal. The term 'partisan' is associated with Communist-led bands and they were often the most fanatical defenders of the Soviet realm. However, there were also non-Communist resistance groups which were nationalist and broadly constitutionalist and as a result a complicated three-way war developed. This book details the guerrilla war which was waged in the various regions and the uniforms and equipment of the combatants.
 

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Contents

Section 1
5
Section 2
9
Section 3
13
Section 4
15
Section 5
17
Section 6
26
Section 7
28
Section 8
36
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Albanian Albanian Partisans Allied anti anti-partisan armed Army uniform artillery Balkans Baltic blue brigades British Bulgarian Byelorussian cap badge Carabinieri cavalry Chetniks chevron civilian cockade collar patch colour commander Communist Corporal Cossack Croat Croatian Army cuffs devices divisions Divs Eastern Battalions Eastern Bosnia Einsatzgruppen elite Estonian Police field cap field grey fighting formed front Galician Galician Police Gendarmerie German Army German Police gold Greece Greek guerilla Home Guard infantry Italian Italy khaki Latvian Schuma Lithuanian Macedonia Mihailovic military mobile Montenegro Mountain nationalist NCOs occupied territories Odredi operations organised peaked cap Police Battalion Polish Proletarian rank insignia Rear Areas recruits Red Army regiments Regts Reichskommissariate Royal Schuma Bns Serbian State Guard Serbian Volunteer Corps side-cap silver braid Slovenia Soviet SS and Police Staff star stripes talions Tito Tito's traditional troops tunic Ukraine Ukrainian Insurgent Army units Ustasha Waffen-SS wearing Wehrmacht wore no insignia worn Yugoslav Army Yugoslavia

About the author (1983)

Peter Abbott is a retired university lecturer. He has written or co-authored a number of Men-at-Arms titles for Osprey, including Men-at-Arms 379: ‘Armies in East Africa 1914–18’. He is particularly interested in 19th and 20th century armies that are less well known to the English speaking reader, and he has been collecting material on the various Ukrainian forces for many years.
DR NIGEL THOMAS is an accomplished linguist and military historian and is currently a Senior Lecturer in charge of the Business Language Unit at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle. His interests are 20th century military and civil uniformed organisations, with a special interest in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. He was recently awarded a PhD on the Eastern Enlargement of NATO.

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TitlePartisan Warfare 1941-45
Volume 142 of Men-at-arms series
AuthorPeter Abbott
Illustrated byMike Chappell
ContributorNigel Thomas
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherOsprey Publishing, 1983
ISBN0850455138, 9780850455137
Length40 pages
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