Originally published: London : Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994

Includes bibliographical references (p. [420]-424) and index

The history of the South Slavs -- Youth -- The making of a communist -- Wartime -- The Ustasha terror -- First clashes with the Chetniks -- The long march -- The fourth and fifth offensives -- The triumph of the partisans -- Power -- Settling scores -- The quarrel with Stalin -- Titoism -- Yugoslavia's place in the world -- The return of the nationalities problem -- The final years -- Reassessment of Tito -- Towards disaster in Serbia -- Towards disaster in Croatia -- Towards disaster in Bosnia-Hecegovina

For nearly forty years, up until his death in 1980, Tito, the Yugoslav leader, was world-famous - first as a Partisan against the Germans, then as the first Communist head to break with the Soviet Union, then as a pioneer of the 'non-aligned' world between East and West. Yet, twelve years after Tito's death, Yugoslavia ceased to exist and its people were caught up in a violent civil war. Was Tito to blame? Richard West's revealing biography answers this and other questions

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