Yugoslav Armies 1941-45
By Nigel Thomas and Dusan Babac; Illustrated by Johnny Shumate
ISBN: 978-472842039
(Osprey Publishing, 2022) – £11.99
This book covers the factions in Yugoslavia sympathetic to the Allied nations. (see Men-at-Arms 282 Axis Forces in Yugoslavia for the other side).
There is one map, which attempts to represent the various annexations and occupations by Axis forces. Coverage is of the Royal Army, Chetniks, and People’s Liberation Army (loosely Communist). I use the term ‘loosely’ because there were non-Communist partisans. Indeed, the text explains that at times Russia sought to minimize its display of support and forbade the wearing of red stars and the like.
The subjects covered are the Royal Army during the April war of 9-18 April 1941, followed by its service in the Middle East to 1945, and then the partisan armies of the Yugoslav Army of the Homeland (Chetniks) and the People’s Liberation Army (Communists).
