Albanian Ambush

12th August 1943: An SOE agent describes an early success against the German occupiers as he does his best to support the Albanian partisans

The Italians had occupied Albania in 1939. Albania only had rifles, shotguns and a few machine guns with which to resist - even the small Italian tanks were intimidating. Before the war Albania did not even have a railway.

In Albania the British Special Operations Executive was now seeking to support different groups of Partisans in their guerrilla war …