Through Forests and Mountains

Yugoslavia 1942.

Anton Markovic didn't believe in a girl with a gun.

How could the Partisans win this war with only farmers, labourers and women for soldiers? The experiment was ridiculous. He should have stuck to the ships he knew and not be in a forest in Bosnia with a rifle in his hands, and a bullet in his head, and a woman by his side cackling like a throttled fowl in some dazzling display of hormonal triumph.

Tito had allowed the girls from the villages to serve in combat roles, and M...