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Terror in the Balkans : German armies and partisan warfare / Ben Shepherd.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 342 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674069435
  • 0674069439
  • 9780674065130
  • 0674065131
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Terror in the Balkans.DDC classification:
  • 940.53/497 23
LOC classification:
  • D766.6 .S44 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Before the Great War : changes in the officer corps -- Forging a wartime mentality: the impact of World War I -- Bridging two Hells: the 1920s and 1930s -- Invasion and occupation: Yugoslavia, 1941 -- Islands in an insurgent sea: the 704th Infantry Division in Serbia -- Settling accounts in blood: the 342d Infantry Division in Serbia -- Standing divided: the independent state of Croatia, 1942 -- Glimmers of sanity: the 718th Infantry Division in Bosnia -- The morass: attitudes harden in the 718th Infantry Division -- The Devil's Division: the 369th Infantry Division in Bosnia, 1943.
Subject: "Ben Shepherd ... uses Austro-Hungarian Army records to consider how the personal experiences of many Austrian officers during the Great War played a role in brutalizing their behavior in Yugoslavia. A comparison of Wehrmacht counter-insurgency divisions allows Shepherd to analyze how a range of midlevel commanders and their units conducted themselves in different parts of Yugoslavia, and why"--Jacket
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-330) and index.

Before the Great War : changes in the officer corps -- Forging a wartime mentality: the impact of World War I -- Bridging two Hells: the 1920s and 1930s -- Invasion and occupation: Yugoslavia, 1941 -- Islands in an insurgent sea: the 704th Infantry Division in Serbia -- Settling accounts in blood: the 342d Infantry Division in Serbia -- Standing divided: the independent state of Croatia, 1942 -- Glimmers of sanity: the 718th Infantry Division in Bosnia -- The morass: attitudes harden in the 718th Infantry Division -- The Devil's Division: the 369th Infantry Division in Bosnia, 1943.

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"Ben Shepherd ... uses Austro-Hungarian Army records to consider how the personal experiences of many Austrian officers during the Great War played a role in brutalizing their behavior in Yugoslavia. A comparison of Wehrmacht counter-insurgency divisions allows Shepherd to analyze how a range of midlevel commanders and their units conducted themselves in different parts of Yugoslavia, and why"--Jacket

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