Tito
Subtitle: And the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Published: June 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780786701919
Subjects: Presidents; Historical; Balkan Peninsula - History; Biography / Autobiography; Yugoslavia; Biography/Autobiography; Tito, Josip Broz,; Politics and government; 1892-1980; 1945-1980; Biography
First sentence: Josip Broz, the future Marshal Tito, was born in 1892 at the village of Kumrovec in Croatia, north-west of the provincial capital Zagreb, or Agram as it was then called.
Description: A revealing biography of Tito, the Yugoslav leader who was a partisan against the Germans and the first Communist head to break with the Soviet Union, considers his role in the breakup of Yugoslavia twelve years after his death.