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Tito – The eternal Partisan
Marie-Janine Calic
Josip Broz Tito was a typical man of the Age of Extremes, which he personally experienced, suffered and shaped. At his death he was considered an internationally recognized statesman, today many consider him a brutal dictator. But who was he really? Marie-Janine Calic makes the historical person behind the legends visible and tells the story of his adventurous life, in which the rise and fall of Yugoslavia is reflected.
Tito was a politician of his own calibre. He was a visionary and pragmatist, a strategist and doer, one who, through extraordinary talents and under very special historical circumstances, made an unprecedented career. During the Second World War, he and his partisans liberated Yugoslavia from German occupation. It was the role in which he felt completely at home and which legitimized his long years of rule. Without him, Yugoslavia would probably no longer exist after the Second World War. For 35 years he remained the indispensable moderator of a more or less prosperous coexistence. But Tito's Yugoslavia hardly survived its creator for a decade, and an outbreak of violence followed which Europe had not experienced since the Second World War. Thus the shadow of bitter failure lies over Tito's life's work.