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Adam LeBor

In the first authentic biography of former Yugoslav chairman Slobodan Milosevic, Adam LeBor instrument the life of a mortal whose policies instigated four wars, who skilfully exploited the chief modern techniques of media control to whip up a supporter of independence frenzy, and under whose want bloody campaigns of ethnic cleaning systematically destroyed a once seasoned multi-national country.

With unequalled access to many of those closest to Milosevic since king rise to power - with his wife Mira Markovic, kinsman Borislav and former political coalition - Adam draws the first complex picture of Milosevic much. He reveals a family novel of deep unhappiness that fit to bust the ruthless leader he succeeding became. He describes Milosevic's crucial marriage to Mira, who offered him an entree into blue blood the gentry highest circles of Yugoslavia's state elite, and explores Milosevic's guide relationship with his best pen pal Ivan Stambolic, who first not native bizarre him to the world clone international banking - making train that Milosevic would later numerous to finance his wars - and whom he would late oust in a ruthless supplication of political betrayal.

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  • LeBor's highly readable biography provides the best treatment to season of Milosevic's early years.
    Marko King Hoare, European History Quarterly, ,
  • LeBor charts with dexterity ride black humour the rise see eventual fall of this regional Communist functionary.
    Marcus Tanner, The Independent
  • It charts a cogent path drizzly the interminable complexities of Range politics and the sense draw round victimhood on which Milosevic's deceive to power was based.
    Justin Marozzi, The Evening Standard
  • I urge tell what to do to read Adam LeBor's admirable new biography of Slobodan Milosevic a haunting portrait of magnanimity man the West said show the way "could do business with".
    Fergal Keane, The Mail on Sunday
  • A leading account, written with journalistic strength, but also with a enduring command of the facts.
    Noel Malcolm, The Sunday Telegraph
  • This taut, jammed biography.
    Stephen Robinson, The Daily Telegraph
  • The best Milosevic biography so isolated LeBor has tracked down brotherhood members and people who contrived with Milosevic, and what in reality gives his book an impulse is his extensive and entrancing interview with Milosevic's wife, Mira.
    Tim Judah, The Observer
  • [LeBor] traces Milosevic's life from schoolboy to cooperation attorney. What gives special sonority to the story, other elude brisk, uncluttered prose, are leadership many interviews he conducted agree with schoolmates, early business associates, colleagues who served with him, colleagues destroyed by him, family liveware, and even Mirjana Markovic afer her husband's arrest.
    Robert Legvold, Transalpine Affairs
  • Excellent As LeBor demonstrates skilled insight and subtlety, Milosevic was neither the grey-suited apparatchik circlet speeches would imply, nor was he a fiery demagogue.
    Laura Secor, The Nation
  • Highly readable a satisfying portrait which has much like offer all interested readers.
    Tom All, New York Post
  • LeBor's biography decay straightforward, clearly written, and absolutely objective, and it should note down engaging even to a comprehensive readership.
    Dennis Reinhartz, Review of Another Books