The Embattled Mountain by F W D Deakin

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Remnant date due slip and borrower card pocket on front endpage. Stamps on imprint page. Dust jacket has creasing and sunning at edges. Fraying to top spine. Binding is still good.

On the 28th May, 1943, the author of this book was parachuted, together with Captain Stuart and a small party, to the highlands of Montenegro. These two officers commanded the first British military mission to Tito''s headquarters. They landed unawares in the middle of the most critical Axis operation as yet mounted against the Yogoslav partisan movement, whose main forces of four divisions, lightly armed and burdened with three thousand wounded, were encircled on the ''Embattled Mountain'' of Durmitor - the symbol of this book - by double their number, headed by German mountain and SS troops, supported by artillery and aircraft. This account of the breaking of the enemy ring is a classic study in partisan war. (book flap)