New PDF release: Knight’s Move: The Hunt for Marshal Tito 1944 (Raid)

By David Greentree,Johnny Shumate

On 25 may perhaps 1944, 800 males of the five hundredth SS Parachute Battalion descended on Drvar, a city at the back of enemy traces in north-western Bosnia. Their goal was once to kill or catch Tito, the chief of the partisan move within the quarter. The plan was once to land the battalion by way of glider and parachute in waves which might be relieved tomorrow via a flooring attack. Tito knew an assault used to be coming near near yet brushed aside the assumption of an airborne attack. The try and do away with Tito was once a titanic failure. The elite battalion were decimated, with merely two hundred males healthy for accountability the following day. Inter-agency contention among the Abwehr and the SS had intended that intelligence used to be now not shared, an issue exacerbated through a failure to take advantage of HUMINT approximately Tito's certain situation and the adoption of a plan that didn't take note of those intelligence limitations.

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