Tito

by Vladimir Dedijer

Overview

THE STORY, TOLD LARGELY BY HIMSELF, OF MARSHAL TITO OF YUGOSLAVIA—THE MAN WHOM STALIN MOST HATES AND FEARS

THE FIRST BIG HOLE in the iron curtain was cut in 1948 by Marshal Tito and the Yugoslavian people when they walked out of the Cominform, defying Stalin, the Red Army, and Moscow’s secret police. This was the first rebellion of a Soviet satellite state. It is not likely to be the last.

Here is the only authentic inside story of this decisive moment in modern history, told in the context of Tito’s life, with about forty per cent of the text in Tito’s own words, recorded by one of his closest friends. Here is the story of Tito’s personal relations with Stalin, how the leaders of the Communist world would drink and talk and joke with each other, how Stalin felt about the Communists in Greece and China, the true stories of Dimitrov, Gomulka, Anna Pauker and the fierce struggle for power which goes on among the rulers of the Communist world. No other man has seen this world on the top level and survived to tell it.

It is told here in the exciting story of the life of an itinerant machinist who wandered around Europe, Russia and the revolutionary movement until Hitler’s attack on his country in 1941 threw him into leadership of the Yugoslav Partisan Army.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789125382
Publisher:	Eschenburg Press
Publication date:	12/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	815 KB

About the Author

Vladimir Dedijer (1914-1990) was a Yugoslav partisan fighter, politician, human rights activist, and historian. On the Moscow radio, Dedijer—pronounced Dediyer—was called an illegitimate son of an American and a relative of President Truman. In Yugoslavia, he was described as Tito’s Harry Hopkins. To Tito himself, he was one of his oldest party comrades and fellow-fighters in the Partisans’ war against the Nazis and, since 1948, in the political warfare against Stalin. To his friends he was known as Vlado, a six-foot-three journalist, lawyer, translator, ping-pong champion, and political personality in his own country. He was a member of the Yugoslav Parliament and secretary of its Foreign Affairs Commission, a member of the Yugoslav Delegation to the United Nations since 1945, and editor of Borba, the leading daily newspaper in Yugoslavia. He first came to the United States in 1931 at the age of seventeen as head of a Y.M.C.A. delegation. His brother, Stephen, a Princeton graduate and an American paratrooper in the war, worked in Yugoslavia’s Institute of Atomic Energy. He was married twice, his first wife having been killed while serving as a major in the Partisan Army, and he had four children. Dedijer died in Rhineback, New York on 30 November 1990 and was subsequently cremated and his ashes interred in Ljubljana, Slovenia.