The Wrath Of The Eagles : A Novel of the Chetniks
New York: E P Dutton, 1943.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #16632
Spine darkened, head fray, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; First Edition, First Printing of this hard-to-find World War Two novel of the ongoing Chetnik guerilla resistance in Yugoslavia led by Draja Mikhailovich. Author was an exiled Austrian who had served in the Balkans during World War One. Wilhelm Sternfeld, Eva Tiedemann; Deutsche Exil-Literatur 1933-1945: Eine Bio-Bibliographie, Zweite Auflage, page 216. "The novel, The Wrath of the Eagles, captures a unique moment and time in history, a point during World War II when Draza Mihailovich and the Chetnik guerrillas were perceived in the U.S. as “Balkan Supermen”. The U.S. public saw in Draza Mihailovich a symbol of resistance, of defiance, of open rejection of and opposition to the New Order created by Adolf Hitler and the Axis powers." - "The Wrath of the Eagles" by Frederick Heydenau // A Review by Carl Savich of a second major novel on Draza Mihailovich and the Chetniks. ; 318 pages.
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