Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British and Greek staff officers have traveled by secret routes to confer with Greek guerrilla and patriot leaders under the very noses of Axis troops...
Present Crisis. Boris had died at one of the most uncertain moments in a rule plagued by internal violence and external pressure. His alliance with the Axis, signed in 1941, had gained for Bulgaria portions of Greece and Yugoslavia. It had cost thousands of casualties in Balkan guerrilla fighting. It had meant tighter belts so that Germans could have more of Bulgaria's wheat and potatoes. As the German lines sagged in Russia and the Mediterranean, Berlin demanded greater help from Sofia...
...conquered countries, ugly intimations that men thought the day of reckoning was close-a general strike in Salonika, daylight attacks on Nazi soldiers in Paris, new guerrilla outbreaks in Greece and Yugoslavia...
...earliest and shortest land-sea battles on record was a naval rout and cavalry triumph. In 1818 José Antonio Páez, a crack horseman and guerrilla leader under Simon Bolivar, sent 50 of his llaneros against a flotilla of Spanish gunboats anchored in the middle of the Apure river in Venezuela. Waving spears and howling like Oriental dervishes, they swam their barebacked white horses through the swift, brown waters. Astonished Spaniards fired a few random shots and then jumped overboard in panic. Páez took every boat, without losing...
Immortal's time is 1941, before the U.S. entered the war. According to Variety, Warner becomes, by force of circumstance, a member of a guerrilla band. He is writing a story about a delegation of Russian youths when they are trapped in the forests by the Germans. Warner gets the land of the evening (the play is four hours long) when, surrounded, he whips off his coat, grabs a machine gun and shouts: 'Now America goes to war!" Everyone, including Warner, dies...