This biography places Tito within a broad historical perspective as a key 20th-century European leader. It begins with the economic, social and national factors that helped to create Josip Broz Tito, then considers his role after World War II, when he unifed Yugoslavia.
The break-up of Yugoslavia, the country Tito, the Croat turned Yugoslav had created was inevitable after his death in 1980. This title deals with Tito, an inspirational partisan leader, doctrinaire communist and yet a thorn in Moscow's side, and a leading light in the Non Aligned Movement.