Its aim: destruction of the Partisan armies and liquidation of the free democratic state comprising roughly one-sixth of Yugoslavia—larger than Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.

As Trifkovic explains in his introduction, the partisan movement and Tito’s postwar government ... one either must have a large, comprehensive map of the former Yugoslavia unfolded next to him / her ...

By 1941, at the age of 24, mousy little Ljubinka had become one of the chief organizers of Communist partisan resistance in her home area, and, as the years passed and Tito Communism became the ...