In Shadows on the Mountain, former Balkan reporter Marcia Kurapovna reveals the unknown, unheralded, and misunderstood story of what Winston Churchill called one of his biggest wartime failures₂the shift of British and U.S. support from Yugoslavia's Draẏa Mihailoviç and his royalist resistance movement to Communist Partisans under the command of Josip Broz Tito. This book illuminates the complex reasons behind that failure through the incredible story of what has come to be considered the greatest rescue of Allied airmen from behind enemy lines in World War II, a rescue executed, incredibly, with minimal official support from the United States and no such support from Great Britain.

Lawrence of Yugoslavia : an Allied awakening inside a civil war -- The mountain at dawn -- Lawrence of Yugoslavia II : into the Partisan-Chetnik quagmire -- The Balkan prize -- Allied rivals, Allied destruction -- A mission (nearly) impossible -- Legends of blood and honor : the sad, strange end of the British-Mihailović relationship -- Their brother's keeper : the downfall of Soviet-Tito relations -- Night into death into day -- The unknown soldier -- The red graveyard -- The politics of surrender.