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Tito is the only European communist outside Russia to exhibit real greatness: his qualities of courage, independence and humanity have won the liking and admiration of observers of every political creed. In Yugoslavia he is simply a hero.
Based on published records and private interviews, this biography traces the whole astonishing career of the young Croatian peasant who was apprenticed as a metal-worker, involved (as a prisoner of war) in the Russian Revolution and eventually emerged as the leader of the Yugoslavian Partisans in the Second World War. Phyllis Auty's account shows how the military genius with which Tito relentlessly harried the Germans (in spite of the treachery of Mihailoviฤ and his Cetniks) was matched in peacetime by a unique gift of political leadership. No other statesman in eastern Europe found a way of defying Russian imperialism.ISBN:0140218009
