Description
This new English edition of Overview of the National Liberation War brings together key writings by Colonel-General Arso Jovanović (1907-1948), the first Chief of the Supreme Headquarters of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. A central strategist of the Yugoslav Partisan movement, Arso offers a detailed account of how the Yugoslav peoples organized, fought and ultimately triumphed over nazi occupation and local collaborationist forces during the Second World War.
Drawing on his wartime reports and analyses, Arso discusses the transformation of partisan detachments into a unified national army, the coordination of operations across Yugoslavia and political consolidation alongside military victory. He situates the Yugoslav struggle within the wider anti-fascist front, emphasizing the decisive role of Soviet aid and the Slavic brotherhood with Russia that made victory possible.
At the same time, the text reflects the internal dimensions of the war — the emergence of inter-ethnic unity, the struggle of the peoples of Yugoslavia and the formation of a new consciousness based on the partisan war. Accompanied by a short biographical note detailing Arso Jovanović’s life, from his early service as a professional officer to his death in 1948, Overview of the National Liberation War is an important historical document and a study in warfare.