Talk - Anzac Guerillas In Yugoslavia's Anti-Nazi Resistance

Public Lecture

This lecture will discuss a group of Second World War Australian servicemen who performed the bulk of their service in Yugoslavia. Captured in Greece in 1941, they escaped in transit to occupied Yugoslavia and became embroiled in the war of resistance against Axis occupation. And later, in the civil war between the two resistance factions, the Partisans and the Četniks. Several of these Australians were later recruited as agents of Special Operations Executive (SOE) and, in the assessment of the speaker, provided the most accurate intelligence of any Allied sources from that theatre, save Ultra.

Speaker – Edmund Goldrick

Edmund Goldrick is a historian and bookseller from Canberra. He has lived in the UK, Germany, and Slovenia, and in 2020 was hired as co-author and researcher for Neil Churches' The Greatest Escape, _an account of the hundred man breakout from Stalag XVIII D. This research led him to uncover the accounts that formed the basis of his recently released book _Anzac Guerrillas (Hachette Australia, 2025).