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OSS and the Yugoslav Resistance, 1943-1945. By Kirk Ford, Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1992. xiv, 249 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-89096-517-X.)
The decay of the Yugoslav Communist regime after the death of Marshal Tito in 1980 first permitted and then required the production of revisionist history. Current gripes were dressed up and projected backward; old corpses were dug up and marched forward. Each of the Yugoslav nations embraced this dangerous historicism, but the Serbs went farthest and fastest. No historical recess was too remote to serve the purposes of their resurgent nationalism and no wrong too equivocal to bear the weight of their paranoid mythopoeia. Yet it was on World War II that Serb historians, journalists, and politicians came to focus most attention. Not only were the crimes then committed against them by Croats, Slav Muslims, and Albanians unforgotten, unforgiven, and, now it seemed, far from unrepeatable, but the...