Diplomatska igra oko Jugoslavije 1944-1945

The book Diplomatic game around Yugoslavia 1944-1945 by the respected historian and journalist Slobodan Nešović is one of the most significant works dedicated to the foreign policy and diplomatic processes that decisively shaped the creation of the Second Yugoslavia at the end of the Second World War. Based on extensive archival material, diplomatic documents and memoirs, the author reconstructs the tense relations and strategic competition between the Soviet Union, Great Britain, the United States of America and the leadership of the People's Liberation Movement. The focus of the action is on the key agreements of the great powers — from the Tito-Šubasic agreement and the allied conferences in Moscow and Yalta, to the issue of recognition of the new government and diplomatic pressures regarding demarcation and the Trieste crisis. Nešović accurately sheds light on the geopolitical interests of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Josip Broz Tito, showing how Yugoslavia fought for a specific international position on the border between East and West. Written extremely analytically and supported by primary sources, this study is indispensable literature for historians, students of political science and all researchers of the modern history of Yugoslavia and the Balkans.