Book description
This is the first authoritative biography of Slobodan Milosevic,
currently on trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity. Adam LeBor,
a critically acclaimed author and journalist who covered the Yugoslav
Wars for the Independent and The Times, documents the life of a man
whose policies instigated four wars, who skilfully exploited the most
modern techniques of media management to whip up a nationalist frenzy,
and under whose rule bloody campaigns of ethnic cleansing systematically
destroyed a once sophisticated multi-ethnic country, and yet who
retained for a decade the ability to wrap the international community'
round his little finger. It gives the inside story of Milosevic's
childhood, his marriage to Mira (who gave him an entre into the highest
circles of Yugoslavia's political elite), his rise to power, the looted
money (estimated at some billion), the ascendancy of crime over
politics (personified in his son Marko's enterprises), his relationships
with key figures like Radovan Karadzic and Franjo Tujman, not to mention
the many western diplomats, politicians and businessmen with whom he
dealt for more than 10 years, and finally the story of his fall from
power. This is the first authoritative biography of Slobodan
Milosevic, currently on trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity.
Adam LeBor, a critically acclaimed author and journalist who covered the
Yugoslav Wars for the Independent and The Times, documents the life of a
man whose policies instigated four wars, who skilfully exploited the
most modern techniques of media management to whip up a nationalist
frenzy, and under whose rule bloody campaigns of ethnic cleansing
systematically destroyed a once sophisticated multi-ethnic country, and
yet who retained for a decade the ability to wrap the international
community' round his little finger. It gives the inside story of
Milosevic's childhood, his marriage to Mira (who gave him an entre into
the highest circles of Yugoslavia's political elite), his rise to power,
the looted money (estimated at some billion), the ascendancy of crime
over politics (personified in his son Marko's enterprises), his
relationships with key figures like Radovan Karadzic and Franjo Tujman,
not to mention the many western diplomats, politicians and businessmen
with whom he dealt for more than 10 years, and finally the story of his
fall from power.
