Bulgaria during the Second World War
Marshall Lee Miller
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California 1975
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
© 1975 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN 0-8047-0870-3
LC 74-82778
To my grandparents Lee and Edith Rankin and Evelyn Miller
Contents
Preface vi
Historical Introduction 1
PART ONE: SEPTEMBER 1939-MAY 1941
1. The Outbreak of the War 13
2. The Dobruja Crisis 24
3. Competition for the Balkans 32
4. Bulgaria Joins the Axis 45
5. Operation Marita 52
PART TWO: JUNE 1941-AUGUST 1943
6. From Barbarossa to Pearl Harbor 59
7. Parries and Parleys 71
8. No Friends, Just Foes 81
9. The Jewish Question 93
10. The Allied Threat 107
11. The Bulgarian Occupation of Macedonia 122
12. The Death of Tsar Boris 135
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PART THREE: SEPTEMBER 1943-SEPTEMBER I.944
13. The Regency and Bozhilov 151
14. Bombs and Peace Feelers 165
15. The Bagryanov Government 174
16. The Partisans 195
17. The Last Phase 204
Epilogue 217
Notes 223
Bibliography 256
Index 279