The battle @ River Neretva
It was the winter of 1943….
Sounds of heavy artillery filled the air….,
tankers rolling closer and fighter planes roaring and swooped past above firing rapidly …
150 000 Nazi army was approaching, like an impenetrable wall slowly closing in on the 12,000 Partisan soldiers.
The Partisan soldiers were exhausted and many were wounded. In addition, typhoid disease struck, driving some to madness. Forced to the edge of this very area….
There was a bridge …. but opposite at the other end, 15,000 Chetniks and Fascists were approaching as well. The Partisan Army destroyed the bridge to prevent this force from approaching via this side.
With the bridge broken, the Fascists and Chetniks relaxed, thinking that it would be a matter of time as the Partisans were now surrounded by the Nazis with no other way out.
In the last moment of hope, a brilliant…
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A simple tribute to the role of Tito’s partisan army, and their grim struggle against both the invading Germans, and many of their own countrymen too. The complex history of Yugoslavia, with its religious, cultural, and political divides, is a tale of tragedy, that erupted in the modern wars we all know too well.
Best wishes, Pete.
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