The Yugoslav Partisans were widely regarded as the most effective resistance movement of World War II because they fought like a real army rather than a scattered underground network. Led by Josip ...

Down through the rocky hills of Croatia and Bosnia last week swept a formidable Axis army. Its aim: destruction of the Partisan armies and liquidation of the free democratic state comprising roughly ...

The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen was one of the most notorious Waffen-SS formations operating in the ...

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 10 - Italy on Tuesday marks the national Day of Remembrance of the Foibe, the mass killings and deportations by Tito's Yugoslav Partisans of Italians living in the area that ...

“Small nations and states will seek their place under the sun, while the great powers will demand that they renounce their moral wealth—above all, their struggle for justice and truth. All of this ...

Some 700 engraved stones at the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in the Bosnian town of Mostar, one of the largest anti-fascist monuments in the Balkans, have been destroyed by vandals. This post is also ...

The significant facts about Trieste were that: 1) Soviet tactics in eastern and southern Europe had been checkmated, for the first time, by equally positive British and U.S. tactics; 2) up to this ...

Stepping out of my comfort zone, I volunteered to review Gaj Trifkovic’s military study of the course of World War II in the former Yugoslavia. Perhaps I should not have been surprised to encounter a ...

Battlefield scenarios from the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 20th Century are used in various board games and video games, but while some of them offer the opportunity to play with history, ...

Rare photographs show the construction and unveiling of some of the famous monuments built during Yugoslavia's socialist era. The unearthly memorials known as "Spomeniks" (the Serbo-Croatian word for ...