Basil Davidson: PARTISAN PICTURE "It was clear that this was the most serious attempt the enemy had yet made to clear Eastern Bosnia, and that he was committing considerable bodies of troops. Inter-communication between divisional and lesser staffs would become difficult, since local chetnik groups—five or fifteen men at a time—would now dig up their rifles and begin sniping at our couriers. At home in England bien-pensant ladies and gentlemen would be earnestly discussing the value of the chetniks and the wrongs done by the British to General Mihaylovitch of blessed memory; here in the Mayevitsa the partisans were busy with one and a half German divisions, and chetniks sniped their couriers and their wounded."
