Knight's Move: The Hunt for Marshal Tito 1944

by David Greentree

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, a major leader of the Yugoslavian partisan movement. The Abwehr had discovered his location there. SS Major Otto Skorzeny had even pinpointed his personal quarters to a cave on the ridge that overlooked the village, but because of inter-agency rivalry between the SS and Abwehr this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184908601X
• ISBN13: 9781849086011
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.2" x 9.7"