HOODWINKING CHURCHILL: TITO’S GREAT CONFIDENCE TRICK

Book ID/图书代码： 02890013B65296

English Summary/英文概要： Grasping the opportunity of the new information recently come to light, some of which he contributed, the author reveals how Britain’s staunchly anti-communist Prime Minister was deceived into giving his full backing to the communist Tito and cutting all aid to the anti-communist forces resisting the Germans in Yugoslavia. But for that decision, the author argues, Tito would not have overcome his political opponents and have emerged as the country’s undisputed ruler after the war. Churchill relied on information provided by two trusted advisors, Fitzroy Maclean and William Deakin, who passed on without verification what Tito told them. The deception was compounded by a communist mole at SOE headquarters in Cairo who withheld or doctored information from liaison officers with the anti-communist leader, Draza Mihailovic. The author explodes the myth of Tito as the heroic Partisan leader, plucked from obscurity by Churchill, who, unlike the rest of occupied Europe, fought the Germans throughout the war, liberating his country virtually unaided. The evidence is otherwise: *Tito used the munitions received from the British and Americans, not to kill Germans as promised to Churchill, but mostly to eliminate his political rivals. *He accused his political opponents of accepting weapons from the Italians while he was proposing joint action to the Germans to resist an Allied landing in the Balkans. *The Partisans’ pestering of the Germans did little to hinder Hitler’s utilisation of the local abundance in oil and minerals, so vital to the German war machine. *The German retreat from Yugoslavia was largely unharassed by Tito’s Partisans, to Churchill’s intense chagrin. *It was the Red Army which really freed Yugoslavia, not Tito’s Partisans.*At the end of the war he massacred in cold blood countless thousands of anti-communist Yugoslavs handed over to him by the British in good faith *Within weeks of his much-vaunted ’difference of opinion’ with Stalin in June 1948 Tito was keenly trying to rejoin the Soviet camp. That it has taken so long for the full story to emerge, the author suggests, is due to a concerted cover-up by a generation who had a vested interest in sustaining the myths surrounding Tito which they had helped to beget. In this the BBC played a controversial part.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 把握最近被曝光的新信息的机会，其中一些就是笔者贡献的，他揭示了英国的坚决反共总理是如何被忽悠全力支持共产主义者提托的，并切断反共势力德军在南斯拉夫所有的援助。作者认为，要是没有这一决定，提托不会战胜他的政治对手并在战争之后成为国内无可争议的统治者。丘吉尔依赖两个值得信赖的顾问菲茨罗伊•麦克莱恩和威廉•迪肯提供的资料，他们没有证实提托说的话就传达了消息。总部设在开罗的特殊行动执行局的共产主义加剧了欺骗，他们与反共产主义的领导者洛维奇隐瞒或篡改来自联络官的信息。作者推翻了提托作为英勇的游击队领袖的神话，他从默默无闻到崛起都是丘吉尔所赐，丘吉尔不同于欧洲其他地方的占领国领导者，他在整个战争中都在和德国斗争，几乎以肉眼可见的速度解放了他的国家。证据如下：*提托用从英国人和美国人那里收到的弹药，答应丘吉尔不杀德国人但尽可能的消除他的政治对手。*他被指控接受来自意大利政敌的武器，同时他为德国提出为抵御盟军登陆在巴尔干地区的联合行动。*德国人的游击队没有对希特勒对当地丰富的石油和矿产的利用任何阻止。这对德国的战争机器是如此重要。*来自南斯拉夫的德军撤退主要是提托的游击队在丘吉尔的强烈授意下击退的。*最后是红军真正解放了南斯拉夫而不是提托的游击队。*他冷酷地屠杀了无数反共的南斯拉夫人。*1948年6月与斯大林碰面的几周之内他大肆鼓吹“意见分歧”，他敏锐地试图重新加入苏联阵营。完整的故事等了这么久才出现，作者提出，那些鼓吹提托神话的人既得到了利益又欺骗了一代人。这本书被改变成剧在BBC播出，引起了很大的争议。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：这是本令人着迷的书……彼得•巴蒂写这本优秀图书的目的是描述丘吉尔为什么被叫做“战争的最大错误之一”。——每日邮报，2011年7月22日

这本书回答了许多问题 ，如提托与德国的合作，特别是阻止整个亚得里亚海盟军的攻击，他的恐怖统治，二战后谋杀了所有可能的敌人。它也表明，游击队几乎没有对德军在1944年的撤退起过什么作用，并且他们也没有解放国家，而是大部分时间都在发动内战企图消灭洛维奇的力量。红军在贝尔格莱德战争和德国的撤离完成了解放。——南斯拉夫杂志2011年08月

这本书的研究和引用令人印象深刻，对于任何学习二战的学生都将提供有用的价值。推荐学习二战和冷战的任何学生都读一读。——自由今天，2011年8月

这本书既是关于提托具备说服力的传记，又是对战争神话中的背后真相的一个有说服力的重新鉴定。——新经典，2011年9月

About the Author/作者介绍： 彼得•巴蒂，是一名报社记者，参加了原来的BBC电视节目“今晚”的团队，后来成为其编辑。在与TV合作一段时间后，他成立了自己的制作公司，指导和制作影视剧本。他获得的奖项包括威尼斯电影节的大奖赛，因为《克虏伯房子的跌落和崛起》获得了莱比锡电影节银鸽奖。他为BBC电视制作了两部关于提托的纪录片，每日邮报称其迷人，星期日电讯报赞其优秀，星期日泰晤士报评价为“对南斯拉夫游击队领导人的政治交易的确凿调查” 。他制作了6本国际赞誉的电视脚本。

Peter Batty a newspaper journalist, joined the original BBC TV Tonight team, later becoming its editor. After a spell with ITV he set up his own production company to produce, direct and script for film and TV. Awards include a Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival and the Silver Dove from the Leipzig Film Festival for his Fall and Rise of the House of Krupp (also a book). He produced and scripted for BBC TV two documentaries on Tito which The Daily Mail found "fascinating", The Sunday Telegraph "excellent" and The Sunday Times "a damning investigation into the political dealings of the Yugoslav Partisan leader". He produced and scripted 6 episodes of the internationally-praised TV.

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