Tito's Yugoslavia

London: The Travel Book Club, 1952. Brown title on yellow boarde which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges and endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has wear to top edge and is not price clipped. 269 pages. 9 sketch maps. The author is one of the most knowledgeable and perceptive of world travellers and commentators. He has an uncanny knack of rooting out the trouble spots ahead of trouble and of foretelling developments. He has travelled every country on Europe and many in Africa, Asia and America, met all manner of personalities from Roosevelt to Hitler, and has a wide experience of war, overground and underground, and is the author of over 60 books. 'All Yugoslavia was laughing over the story of the man who, soon after the war was over, shouted down with Stalin and was jailed for four years. On his release he was naturally determined not to make the same mistake. So he shouted long live Stalin - and was promptly jailed for another four years. The story may be apocryphal, but it illustrates a modern and dramatic phase of Yugoslavia's eventful history. Yugoslavia has seldom been far from the headlines since the days of 1918 when the Serbs embraced their cousins the Croats and Slovenes. (subsequently, of course, things developed much further than the author could imagine writing in the early 1950's). **** NOT EX LIB **** A1D. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.