A valuable and objective reassessment of the role of Serbia and Serbs in WWII. Today, Serbian textbooks praise the Chetniks of Draža MIhailovi? and make excuses for the collaboration of Milan Nedi?'s regime with the Axis. However, this new evaluation shows the more complex and controversial nature of the political alliances during the period.

List of Illustrations Preface Notes on the Contributors Glossary Introduction; S.P.Ramet PART I: OCCUPIED SERBIA AND VOJVODINA The Collaborationist Regime of Milan Nedi?;   S.P.Ramet  & S.Lazi? Employment of Labor in Wartime Serbia: Social History and the Politics of Amnesia; S.Rutar Vojvodina Under Hungarian Rule; K.Ungváry PART II: THE TREATMENT OF JEWS & THE ORTHODOX CHURCH Delusion and Amnesia: Ideology and Culture in Nedi?'s Serbia; O.Manojlovi?-Pintar The Collaborationist Administration and the Treatment of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Serbia; J.Byford Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovi?: 'Lackey of the Germans' or a 'victim of Fascism'?; J.Byford PART III: CHETNIKS AND PARTISANS Allies or Foes? Mihailovi?'s Chetniks during the Second World War; M.Jareb Relations between the Chetniks and the Authorities of the Independent State of Croatia, 1942—1945; N.Bari? The Partisans and the Serbs; M.A.Hoare PART IV: CONTEMPORARY DEBATES The Serbian-Croatian Controversy over Jasenovac; P.Kolstø Revisions of Second World War History in Contemporary Serbia; D.Stojanovi? The Reevaluation of Milan Nedi? and Draža Mihailovi? in Serbia; S.Lazi? CONCLUSION Conclusion; O.Listhaug

NIKICA BARIC Research Associate, the Croatian Institute for History, Zagreb, Croatia JOVAN BYFORD Lecturer in Psychology, the Open University, UK MARKO ATTILA HOARE Senior Research Fellow, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University, London, UK MARIO JAREB Research Associate, the Croatian Institute for History, Zagreb, Croatia PAL KOLSTA Professor of Russian and East European Studies, the University of Oslo, Norway SLADJANA LAZIC Doctoral Student, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway OLA LISTHAUG Professor of Political Science, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway OLGA MANOJLOVIC PINTAR Research Fellow, the Institute for Contemporary History of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia SABRINA P.RAMET Professor of Political Science, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway SABINE RUTAR Managing Editor of the journal Sudosteuropa. A Journal for Politics and Society DUBRAVKA STOJANOVIC Associate Professor of History, the University of Belgrade, Serbia KRISZTIAN UNGVARY Researcher at the Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Budapest, Hungary