Milosevic: Portrait of a Tyrant

Doder, Dusko and Branson, Louise

ISBN 10: 0684843080 / ISBN 13: 9780684843087

Published by The Free Press, New York, 1999

About this Item

xiv, 304pp, double-page map, notes, index. Cloth-backed papered boards in jacket. Foxing to top edge otherwise excellent. The first full-length biography of the Serbian leader/dictator, referred to in the newspapers as 'the butcher of the Balkans'. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Milosevic: Portrait of a Tyrant
• Publisher: The Free Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684843080
• ISBN 13: 9780684843087
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • History- Britain & Europe
  • Biography
  • Business/ Economics/ Politics

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Synopsis

Who is Slobodan Milosevic? Is he the next Saddam Hussein or Moammar Qaddafi? This work pulls away the veil of secrecy to expose the man behind the atrocities of Kosovo, giving an account of one man's rise to power through corruption, lies and distortion.

About the Author

Dusko Doder, a native of Yugoslavia, has been a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and other publications for more than thirty years, covering Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and China.

Louise Branson is the Washington correspondent for The Scotsman (Edinburgh) and was the Balkan bureau chief for The Sunday Times of London from 1990 to 1996, following assignments in Moscow and Beijing.

Doder and Branson are the authors of the New York Times bestseller Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin, and Doder is also the author of The Yugoslavs and Shadows and Whispers: Power Politics Inside the Kremlin from Brezhnev to Gorbachev. They live in Vienna, Virginia.