THE GERMAN CAMPAIGN IN THE BALKANS

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THE GERMAN CAMPAIGN IN THE BALKANS

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1Ammianus
Jan 11, 2014, 2:56 pm

Besides the US Army study ... THE GERMAN CAMPAIGNS IN THE BALKANS(1953), can anyone recommend a book on this subject?

2rudel519
Jan 11, 2014, 7:02 pm

Hi A,
That is a pretty obscure subject. Do a search on my books for Balkans. Also, there's The Mediterranean and Middle East: The Germans Come to the Help of Their Ally (1941) v. 2 (History of 2nd World War, U.K by I.S.O. Playfair , To Greece (Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War) by W. G McClymont Greece, Crete and Syria (Australia in the War S) by Gavin Long and Germany and the Second World War: Volume III: The Mediterranean, South-East Europe, and North Africa 1939-1941 (From Italy's Declaration of Non-Belligerence ... the Entry of the United States into the War). Unfortunately none of those are easy to find or cheap, unless you do e-books. Amazon is starting to release kindle editions of the British official histories sans maps, and New Zealand has all 50 of their official histories as e-books for free on the web, but there are some OCR issues with the NZ online books.
Steve

3Ammianus
Jan 11, 2014, 7:20 pm

Thanks Rudel, I'll probably buy the green book study. I'm interested in reading about the fall of Yugoslavia mostly (not Greece so much).

4wbf2nd
Jan 19, 2014, 10:54 pm

Of possible interest is "The Embattled Mountain" by FWD Deakin. It recounts his experiences as one of the two officers commanding the first British military mission to Tito in 1943. Obviously it covers a period after the fall of Yugoslavia. I haven't read it yet, so can't give a critique.