Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Randolph Churchill, only son of Britain's Prime Minister and a veteran of a previous British mission to Marshal Tito (see PRESS), flew from Italy to Yugoslavian Partisan headquarters with his good friend Major Evelyn Waugh, satirical English novelist (Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags) and Comman-doman. As the plane neared the field it went into a dive and crashed, killing the five-man crew and two Partisan passengers. Churchill, Waugh, British War Correspondent Philip Jordan and four Russian officers escaped with minor injuries, next day were evacuated by plane to a British hospital in Italy...
...frost woke me and my two Partisan guards at dawn on May 26 in the primeval forest of the Yavorusha Mountain. We climbed the ankle-deep carpet of dry leaves up to the top, and all around us the thick highland woods teemed with refugees and lowing cattle...
...commanders." The woman tucked a piece of bread into the hands of her last son, made the sign of the cross above his head, and vanished. Up and down we marched, first through the woods and then through a lunar panorama, of fierce broken crags. We overtook a Partisan soldier, shot through the chest, gasping and struggling toward the nearest wood hospital...
...Partisans could never figure out Major Randolph Churchill-his fits, bravado and geniality. They generally defined him as "the incredible Englishman." Randolph was constantly hunting up his batman. "Salmon! Where is Salmon? Salmon, I say, you must be with me!" Then he would praise Salmon in public, whereupon Salmon would draw himself up: "Sir, I don't like to be made fun of!" During the rest pauses, super-active Randolph would think up various picnic pleasures, such as constructing a nice bivouac when all we wanted was to be left alone and lie in the grass. He never fussed...
Secret Pokret. I soon learned the meaning of pokret (movement)-the secret of the Partisan war strategy. It is a mass march across trackless rocks and forests, usually at night. The idea is to break through the German encirclement or to get, by intricate maneuvering, behind the pursuing German columns and pursue them in turn. It is like a slow-motion air dogfight, performed on the ground...