TITO AND HIS COMRADES
by JOŽE PIRJEVEC
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TITO AND HIS COMRADES (TITO IN TOVARIŠI)
A new light on familiar events – the most comprehensive presentation of Josip Broz Tito.
Jože Pirjevec’s book presents Tito’s life story and the background to his political rise, which was closely connected with the life and political activities of his “comrades”. In revealing new dimensions of the leading creators of the second Yugoslavia, with Tito at the helm, the author draw upon documents kept in private and state archives in Ljubljana and other capitals of the former Yugoslav republics, while he also researched the available archive materials in Washington, New York, Moscow, Berlin, Cairo and New Delhi, as well as the archives of the Slovene and foreign intelligence services, such as Stasi and the KGB. Rich pictorial material.
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Rights sold to France, Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Czech Republic and translated in to Russian, German and English languages.
Author Biography
Jože Pirjevec (Trieste, 1940) is one of the most important diplomatic historians working on the western Balkans and a Fellow of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Since the 1980s he has dedicated a great deal of his research work to the history of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav wars and the author of the bestseller Tito and His Comrades (2011). His newest book Partizani (The Partisans) was published in March 2020.
In 2006 he was awarded a gold medal by the University of Primorska. That same year he received an award from the TIGR Society, and the following year a gold medal from the Union of the Associations for the Values of the National Liberation Movement of Slovenia (ZZB NOB Slovenia). In November 2007, the Zois Award Committee gave him the Ambassador of Science Award. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Liberation Front in 2011, ZZB NOB honoured him with a certificate, their highest honour, and the following year the Slovenian Cultural and Economic Association gave him a lifetime achievement award on behalf of Slovenians in Italy. He is the author of many historical monographs, including the international bestseller Tito and His Comrades (2011).
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- Publisher CANKARJEVA ZALOŽBA
- ISBN/Identifier 9789612318444
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleTITO IN TOVARIŠI
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