Ally Betrayed: The Uncensored Story of Tito and Mihailovich
About this ebook
1. Why did the Allied press which had made a great hero of Mihailovich as a resister of Axis invaders of Yugoslavia begin to play him down after 1942?
2. What was Tito’s past? And where was the radio station located that heralded his appearance in Yugoslavia?
3. What decision was reached at Teheran with respect to Tito and Mihailovich?
4. How was the ALLIED military intelligence about Yugoslavia falsified?
5. Why did Churchill say of Yugoslavia, “I was deceived and badly informed.”
David Martin was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1914. Before World War II, he wrote on Canadian affairs for Current History, The Nation, The New Republic, the New Leader, and other journals. He joined the Canadian Air Force in October 1942, became a pilot, and flew on the Burmese frontier. He was honorably discharged in 1946.
With a Foreword by Dame Rebecca West, one of Mihailovich’s most avid supporters.
“Solid reading”—Kirkus Review
About the author
DAVID MARTIN (1914-1995) was a former foreign policy analyst for Senator Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut.
Born in Wiarton, Ontario, he worked as a freelance journalist in London in the early years of WWII. His articles for the British weekly Tribune on the civil war in Yugoslavia, and his support of Draza Mihailovic, the leader of the Chetnik forces fighting Tito’s Partisans and the Germans, caught the attention of two writers who were championing Mihailovic’s cause, George Orwell and Rebecca West. He joined their group and continued to support Mihailovic, who was eventually captured and executed by Tito.
Martin wrote three books on Yugoslavia: Ally Betrayed (1946), Patriot or Traitor: The Case of General Mihailovich, and The Web of Disinformation: Churchill’s Yugoslav Blunder (1990).
After the war, he was secretary of the Refugees Defense Committee in 1946 and executive director of the International Rescue Committee from 1947-1952. In 1959 Martin became the foreign policy and national security assistant to Senator Dodd. From 1969-1979, he was the senior analyst for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Internal Security.
He died in Arlington, Virginia, on March 16, 1995.
DAME REBECCA WEST (1892-1983) was a British writer, journalist, and literary critic. Born Cicely Isabel Fairfield in Kerry, Ireland, West initially trained as an actress, but soon found her calling as a writer after having several essays and editorial pieces on politics and women s suffrage published in prominent magazines such as The Times, The Daily Telegraph and the New York Herald Tribune. Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials; and the “Aubrey trilogy” of autobiographical novels (1956-1985). Time called her “indisputably the world’s number one woman writer” in 1947. She was made CBE in 1949, and DBE in 1959.
