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The Exoneration of the "Black Hand," 1917-1953
The Exoneration of the Black Hand 19171953 Author:David MacKenzie This is an absorbing and dramatic story that provides much information about interwar royal Yugoslavia, its collapse, and the debate as to whether the Serbian patriotic society or "Black Hand" was a nationalist organization or a group of traitors. The third and final installment of MacKenzie's "Black Hand" trilogy, this book begins with the lega... more »cy of the Salonika Trail of 1917 in which Colonel Dimitrijevic-Apis and his "Black Hand" colleagues were convicted of treason in a staged trial and three were executed. Agitation for amnesty and a retrial followed but the latter was not granted until more than thirty years later when the government once again changed hands.« less