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A novel in which a young British journalist has his world turned upside down after reporting on and living through the fall of Yugoslavia. A timely reminder of the details of the worst conflicts in Europe since World War II and of the West’s failure to intervene at a price of over 100,000 lives.
Ante Pavelic was the leader of the fascist party of Croatia (the Ustaše), who, on Adolf Hitler's instruction, became the leader of Croatia after the Nazi invasion of 1941. Paveli? was an extreme Croatian nationalist who believed that the Serbian people were an inferior race - he would preside over a genocide that ultimately killed an estimated 390,000 Serbs during World War II. Croatia under Ante Paveli? provides the full history of this period, with a special focus on the United States' role in the post-war settlement. Drawing on previously unpublished documents, Robert McCormick argues that President Harry S. Truman's Cold War priorities meant that Paveli? was never made to answer for his crimes. Today, the Ustaše remains difficult legacy within Croatian society, partly as a result of Paveli?' political life in exile in South America. This is a new account of US foreign policy towards one of the Second World War's most brutal dictators and is an essential contribution to Croatian war-time history.
In American Foreign Policy and Yugoslavia, 1939-1941, Ivo Tasovac contends that Yugoslavia acted as an unwilling prop for American involvement in World War II. As a result of America's commitment to Britain as an exception to their doctrine of neutrality, and of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt's shared eagerness for conflict and suppression of Germany, the war and ensuing Communist takeover of Eastern Europe were inevitable. With Yugoslavia cast as the endangered barrier between the Germans and the Mediterranean, Churchill was able to establish an unquestionable need for U.S. military action. Britain's leader could seize on the small country as a staging area for activating the Sovi...
Polde (Leopold or Leo) Došen was born 10 May 1895 in Rudopolja, Brunvo, Serb-Croat-Slovakia. His parents were Tome Došen and Marta Dragičević. He immigrated to the United States with his brother Martin in 1907. He settled in Kenaston, Saskatchewan in about 1918. He married Bozica (Anna) Pavelić, daughter of Joseph Pavelić and Katerine Tomlenjović, 12 January 1921. They had one daughter. Anna died in 1922. He married Mary Rose Sulik 7 May 1923. They had seven children. He died in 1958 in Battleford, Sakatchewan. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
Presents twenty celebrity interview pieces that focus on the process of getting to know the interview subjects, and present the authors ideas on celebrity and popular culture.
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