Two nineteenth century surgeons.

the biggest problem in guerilla warfare and at one time we were carrying so many wounded on stretchers, with two men carrying, that there were few left to fight. Food was very scarce; we seemed to live on boiled billy goat-which tastes as the billy goat smells-and a rock hard maize bread "chicken mash," equally unpalatable. Vegetables were never seen. Later we could get sheep milk yogurt and in the early summer wild strawberries, unbelievably delicious after our winter fare. At one stage I heard food had been dropped. I sent a young Partisan, who two days later proudly walked in carrying a 28 pound tin of soya link sausages. My chagrin will be appreciated by those old enough to have eaten them during the war. Historical background Although the peoples.of Yugoslavia all speak Serbo-Croat and are southern Slavs, originally of different "tribes," who migrated there centuries ago, what is happening today has been the pattern for centuries. There has been persecution and bloodshed throughout their history. This is now based on petty nationalism and religious and cultural differences, as the north was occupied by the Austro-hungarian empire, which was Roman Catholic, while the south and east were for many years under Turkish (Ottoman) rule. Many Christian Orthodox became Muslim during this period, which is why there are so many Muslims in Bosnia. Both empires were allies of the Germans in the first world war and obviously had to relinquish all control. Yugoslavia as we knew it, became a federation of the six states, a creation of the Versailles treaty after the first world war. It was Serb dominated and before the war was a semifascist state with a Serbian monarch. When Germany invaded Yugoslavia in 1941 she was defeated within a few days; then came the invasion and defeat of Albania and Greece. Mihailovic, a right wing Serbian army officer, formed a Serbian guerilla force, the Cetniks, who were not very active and later collaborated with the Germans. Later in 1941 Russia was invaded, and Josip Broz, "Tito," the leader of the illegal Yugoslav Communist Party, founded the Partisans, who quickly became very active over much of Yugoslavia. some Jews whose patriotic fervour overcame their dislike of the antireligious dogma of the Communists. After the war Yugoslavia was united, though there were many ethnic problems. When Titp died it fell apart. The Partisan war was brutal, dirty, and destructive. …