Word: bosnian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road wound and looped across a 4,000-ft. Bosnian mountain, chipped by landslides. Deep ravines would suddenly burst upon us like vistas from a plane. Mighty fir trees stood at attention and along the road peasants climbed off their carts to hold their oxen by the horns till we passed. Patrols of Partisan soldiers in grey-green uniforms with submachine guns slung on their backs saluted and shouted "Zdravo!" (Be in good health). We overtook a file of gloomy, bedraggled German, Croat Ustashi and Chetnik prisoners with Partisan guards in front and a Partisan girl, a rifle across...
Partisans with tommy guns stood guard where Jajce's steep and darkened streets leave the town for the mountains. The Germans across the ridge might know of the meeting, try a night attack. In the center of the old Bosnian town, in a shabby hall beyond the Turkish fountain, sat 142 sweating, cheering men, engaged in founding a government...
...spent an afternoon with a Partisan brigade commander in a red-roofed, limestone house in a mountain town, going over maps, plans, requirements. The Partisans made full notes of all they told him-to forward to Drug (Comrade, pronounced "droog") Tito,† Marshal of the Partisans, at his Bosnian headquarters...
...Last Man. Last week, in a cave in the Bosnian hills, Anna Furlan, a black-haired girl, tended a score of wounded Partisans. Axis troops were advancing under the cover of Stukas. The Partisans fell back doggedly, drawing the fascist forces between two mountains where they might be cut off and annihilated. The tactic was simple, but the cave, the wounded Partisans and Anna would fall into fascist hands. When the Germans came close to the mouth of the cave, Anna got a tommy gun, killed all the wounded men, then herself...
Another song is about two heroes riding their chargers triumphantly through the Bosnian mountains. Sample stanzas...