Volume 42, Number 17 · November 2, 1995
The Politics of Self-Destruction
By Michael Ignatieff
Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia
by Richard West
Carroll and Graf, 436 pp., $27.50
The Death of Yugoslavia
by Laura Silber, by Allan Little
Penguin, 400 pp., £6.99 (paper)
Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of "Ethnic Cleansing"
by Norman Cigar
Texas A & M University Press, 247 pp., $29.95
At the end of his life, the old lizard had a fondness for greenhouses: he would lie there, warming himself by the hour amid the poinsettias, slipping in and out of sleep. When he died, they buried him in the biggest of his greenhouses and set an honor guard to watch over the white marble slab with his name in raised brass letters: Josip Broz Tito, 1892–1980. It once was a national shrine: visiting heads of state and schoolchildren came there to lay wreaths. Hardly anyone visits it anymore. When I stopped by Belgrade in the autumn of 1992, the honor guard was gone and I had the place to myself. It was raining and drops were splashing onto his tomb from a broken windowpane.
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