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Comrade Enver Hoxha’s The Anglo-American Threat to Albania is a searing memoir from the Albanian Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, exposing the duplicity and schemes of British and American imperialist missions in wartime Albania.
From Brigadier MacLean and General Davies to envoys like Hodgson, Palmer, Jacobs and Fultz, the so-called “allies” brought only intrigue, betrayal and attempts to subvert Albania’s struggle. Enver Hoxha recounts in vivid detail how these missions meddled in the country’s internal affairs, backed collaborators such as the Balli Kombëtar and Legaliteti, and even planted agents like Mustafa Gjinishi inside the Communist Party of Albania. Their central pawn was Abaz Kupi — an illiterate reactionary tied to feudal beys and King Zog’s regime — whom the Anglo-Americans hoped to install as a northern strongman while their Greek partners annexed the south.
Yet, against these plots, Albania — encircled and only fighting with its own strength — prevailed. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of Albania and Enver Hoxha himself, the people thwarted every manoeuvre, defeating fascism on the battlefield and, at the same time, shattering imperialist plans on the political front.
This book is a sharp exposé of Anglo-American intrigue and a call to vigilance for all oppressed peoples. Few works so thoroughly unmask the hidden hand of imperialism in the Balkans. Against U.S. world domination and for world progress, The Anglo-American Threat to Albania stands as Enver Hoxha’s most important and enduring work today.