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Knight's Move - The Hunt for Marshal Tito 1944 (Paperback)
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Knight's Move - The Hunt for Marshal Tito 1944 (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 600
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On 25 May 1944, 800 men of the 500th SS Parachute Battalion
descended on Drvar, a town behind enemy lines in north-western
Bosnia. Their aim was to kill or capture Tito, the leader of the
partisan movement in the region. The plan was to land the battalion
by glider and parachute in two waves which would be relieved the
next day by a ground assault. Tito knew an attack was imminent but
dismissed the idea of an airborne assault. The attempt to eliminate
Tito was a colossal failure. The elite battalion had been
decimated, with only 200 men fit for duty the next day.
Inter-agency rivalry between the Abwehr and the SS had meant that
intelligence was not shared, a problem exacerbated by a failure to
exploit HUMINT about Tito's precise location and the adoption of a
plan that did not take into account these intelligence limitations.
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