Word: chetniks
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...cemetery where the Germans had established their headquarters. The whole town was in German hands by now, but the firing was heavier at the foot of the hills around the town. We stood for a while, watching the bandaging of the first German wounded. Suddenly I saw a Chetnik standing in a group of German officers. He was a young man in a peasant costume, a rifle slung across his shoulder and on his cap the insignia of the Royal Yugoslav Army. "The bastard," muttered Talbot...
...forces together for that purpose in priority to any other purpose." For that reason, the Allies had recognized the ascendancy of Communist Marshal Tito and his Partisans. Churchill recorded the already known fact that young King Peter had fired his exiled Premier Bozhidar Purich and his War Minister, Chetnik General Draja Mihailovich (who "has not been fighting the enemy"). Then Churchill recognized a long-range, sometimes overlooked fact about multiracial Yugoslavia...
...peasants climbed off their carts to hold their oxen by the horns till we passed. Patrols of Partisan soldiers in grey-green uniforms with submachine guns slung on their backs saluted and shouted "Zdravo!" (Be in good health). We overtook a file of gloomy, bedraggled German, Croat Ustashi and Chetnik prisoners with Partisan guards in front and a Partisan girl, a rifle across her shoulder, singing in the row of guards behind...
...Chetnik martial valor, Marshal Tito has little respect. To hear him say it, the Chetniks-in spite of their historic reputation, black beards, skull & crossbones on caps-take to flight in any determined attack. However, they know the terrain and are extremely valuable to the Germans as guides...
...Captain told a thrilling tale of secret departure from Yugoslavia with two U.S. Army officers who were with him at Chetnik headquarters. But neither he nor his unnamed companions were allowed to tell their full stories...