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100 1 $aThompson, E. P.$q(Edward Palmer),$d1924-1993.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78089033
245 10 $aBeyond the frontier :$bthe politics of a failed mission, Bulgaria 1944 /$cE.P. Thompson.
260 $aStanford, CA :$bStanford University Press ;$aSuffolk :$bMerlin Press,$c1997.
300 $a111 pages :$bmap ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aCamp lectures ;$v1981
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 107-111).
520 $aEarly in 1944, a Special Operations mission was parachuted into Serbia to make contact with a group of Bulgarian partisans operating in the area. The mission, of which Frank Thompson was a member, was under the command of Major Mostyn Davies; its remit was to arrange air-drops for the partisans to assist their operations against the occupying Royal Bulgarian Army, and later in the extension of guerilla warfare across the frontier into Bulgaria itself.
520 8 $aWhen Mostyn Davies was killed in action, Thompson assumed command of the mission and crossed the frontier with the partisan brigade in mid-May. By the end of May, the whole group including the British mission had been killed or captured. After a show trial held in the village of Litakovo, Frank, although a British officer in uniform, was executed by firing squad together with the remaining leaders of the partisans and villagers who had aided them.
520 8 $aAs E P Thompson shows in these lectures, the status of the actors in this drama, and the respect accorded to them in the fifty years that followed, varied with changes in the political climate in Europe and the world. He examines here not simply the events themselves, although these have been clarified, but the politics which lay behind the attitudes of those in authority towards the mission.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xUnderground movements$zBulgaria.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114003
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xUnderground movements$zSerbia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113883
600 10 $aDavies, Mostyn,$d-1944.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97015171
600 10 $aThompson, Frank,$d1920-1944.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80145134
830 0 $aHarry Camp lectures at Stanford University ;$v1981.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83745006
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