{"product_id":"to-walk-with-the-devil-slovene-collaboration-and-axis-occupation-1941-1945-paperback-softback-9781442613300","title":"To Walk with the Devil; Slovene Collaboration and Axis Occupation, 1941-1945 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781442613300","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTo Walk with the Devil\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSlovene Collaboration and Axis Occupation, 1941-1945\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGregor J. Kranjc (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442613300\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 February 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 2 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An important and valuable contribution to the historiography of European collaboration… Kranjc’s book is a timely addition to the history of wartime Slovenia and contemporaneous debates about collaboration.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Mark Biondich (The Journal of Modern History vol 87:02:2015)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1941, when Slovenia was invaded by Germany, Italy, and Hungary, Slovenes faced at best assimilation, and at worst deportation or extermination. Still, a significant number of Slovenes would eventually collaborate with the Axis powers. Why were they so ready to work with their invaders, and why did the occupiers permit this collaboration?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGregor Joseph Kranjc investigates these questions in \u003cem\u003eTo Walk with the Devil\u003c\/em\u003e, the first English-language book-length account of Slovene-Axis collaboration during the Second World War. Examining archival material and post-war scholarly and popular literature, Kranjc describes the often sharp divide between Communist-era interpretations of collaboration and those of their ÉmigrÉ anti-Communist opponents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKranjc situates this divide in the vicious civil war that engulfed Slovenia during its occupation – a conflict that witnessed at its bloody climax the execution of over 10,000 Slovene collaborators and opponents of the new Communist Yugoslav regime in the wake of liberation. \u003cem\u003eTo Walk with the Devil\u003c\/em\u003e makes clear how these grisly events continue to ripple through Slovene society today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlternate Spelling of Place Names\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMap 1: Axis-Occupied Yugoslavia, 1941\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMap 2: The Province of Ljubljana and Surrounding Regions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Battle Goes Post-war: The Historiographical Debate\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Before the Deluge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Reality Subverted (6 April-22 June 1941)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Emergence of Resistance (July 1941-November 1942)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Emergence of Collaboration (July 1941-July 1943)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Collapse of Italy and a New Spirit of German Cooperation (July 1943-December 1943)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Shoulder to Shoulder with the German Armed Forces (January 1944-December 1944)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Banality of Civilian Collaboration (September 1943-December 1944)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Final Stand and its Consequences (January 1945-May 1945)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Verdict\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702127522072,"sku":"9781442613300","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/to-walk-with-the-devil-slovene-collaboration-and-axis-occupation-1941-1945-paperback-softback-9781442613300","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}