Tito and His Comrades (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780299317706)

This landmark biography reveals the life of one of the most powerful figures of the Cold War era. Josip Broz (1892-1980), nicknamed Tito, led Yugoslavia for nearly four decades with charisma, cunning, and an iron fist.

With his Partisans he fought Hitler during World War II, and after the war he shrewdly resisted the Soviet Union's grasp. A leader of the non-aligned nations, he long enjoyed a reputation in the West as "the only good Communist" despite a dubious human rights record at home. Joze Pirjevec employs impressive research from archives in eight languages to offer this illuminating, definitive portrait of a complex man in turbulent times.

Pirjevec recounts how Tito, with little schooling but an astute intellect and driving ambition, rose through Communist Party ranks to shape and rule the Yugoslav federation. Surviving multiple assassination attempts by Nazis, Soviet spies, and others, Tito boldly threatened Stalin in return and may have, Pirjevec reveals, contrived Stalin's death. The narrative follows Tito's personal and political life into old age, as the specter of a Soviet invasion haunted him until his death at age eighty-seven. Available in English for the first time, this edition includes new material from Pirjevec and a foreword by Emily Greble.

Author: Joze Pirjevec
ISBN-10: 0299317706
ISBN-13: 9780299317706
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 05/22/2018
Pages: 552
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2018