Recipients of the Croix Du Combattant Volontaire - Josip Broz Tito, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Pham Van Dong, Georges Journois (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Josip Broz Tito, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Pham Van Dong, Georges Journois, David Feuerwerker, Eugene Bullard, Raoul Magrin-Vernerey, Gaston Palewski, Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov, Michel Moine, Andre Girard, Rene-Georges Laurin, Pierre Garbay. Excerpt: Josip Broz Tito (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: born Josip Broz; Cyrillic script: 7 May 1892 - 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation. He gained international attention as the chief leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, working with Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. Josip was born as the seventh child of Franjo and Marija Broz in the village of Kumrovec within Austria-Hungary (modern-day Croatia). Drafted into the army, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest Sergeant Major in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Josip was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains, after being seriously wounded and captured by the Russians. He participated in the October Revolution, and later joined a Red Guard unit in Omsk. Upon his return home, Broz found himself in a newly created Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. He was Secretary-General (later President) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1939-80), and went on to lead the World War II Yugoslav guerrilla movement, the Yugoslav Partisans (1941-45). After the war, he was the Prime Minister (1943-63) and later President (1953-80) of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). From 1943 to his death in 1980, he held the rank of Marshal of Yugoslavia, serving as the supreme commander of the Yugoslav military, the Yugoslav People's Army ...