War in a Twilight World

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Illuminating a Twilight World

   1. Introduction: Illuminating a Twilight World

      • Ben Shepherd, Juliette Pattinson

      Pages 1-23

3. The Soviet Union

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Partisans, Civilians and the Soviet State: An Overview

      • Kenneth Slepyan

      Pages 35-57

   3. ‘One senses danger from all sides, especially from fanatical civilians’: The 121st Infantry Division and Partisan War, June 1941–April 1942

      • Jeff Rutherford

      Pages 58-79

   4. The Relationship between Soviet Partisans and the Civilian Population in Belorussia under German Occupation, 1941–4

      • Alexander Brakel

      Pages 80-101

   5. The German Gendarmerie and Partisans in Belorussia, 1941–4

      • Erich Haberer

      Pages 102-125

4. Poland

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. The Armia Krajowa and Polish Partisan Warfare, 1939–43

      • Paul Latawski

      Pages 137-155

   3. ‘A Game of Cat-and-Mouse’: The Gestapo Spy Network in Tomaschow Mazowiecki, Poland 1939–45

      • Claire M. Hubbard-Hall

      Pages 156-177

5. Yugoslavia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Bloodier than Boehme: The 342nd Infantry Division in Serbia, 1941

      • Ben Shepherd

      Pages 189-209

   3. Integrated Warfare? The Germans and the Ustaša Massacres: Syrmia 1942

      • Alexander Korb

      Pages 210-232

   4. Propaganda and the Partisan War in Ljubljana 1943–45

      • Gregor Joseph Kranjc

      Pages 233-256

   5. Erratum

      • Gregor Joseph Kranjc

      Pages E1-E1

6. Back Matter

   Pages 257-262

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Cutting-edge case studies examine the partisan and anti-partisan warfare which broke out across German-occupied eastern Europe during World War Two, showing how it was shaped in varied ways by factors including fighting power, political and economic structures, ideological and psychological influences, and the attitude of the wider population.

• civil war
• Europe
• infantry
• Poland
• Polis
• Russia
• Soviet Union
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

• Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

  Ben Shepherd

• University of Strathclyde, UK

  Juliette Pattinson

ALEXANDER BRAKEL Policy Advisor to the Head of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Federal Parliament ERICH HABERER Lecturer in Modern European History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada CLAIRE M HALL Doctoral Graduate, Hull University, UK ALEXANDER KORB Lecturer and Doctoral Candidate, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany GREGOR KRANJC Lecturer in Modern Eastern European History, College of William& Mary, Virginia, USA PAUL LATAWSKI Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK EVAN MAWDSLEY Professor of International History, University of Glasgow, UK JEFF RUTHERFORD Assistant Professor of History, Wheeling Jesuit University, West Virginia, USA KLAUS SCHMIDER Senior Lecturer, War Studies Department, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK KENNETH SLEPYAN Professor of Modern European History, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

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