Prime Minister for Peace
My Struggle for Serbian Democracy
By (author) Milan Panic With Kevin C. Murphy
Publication date:
26 March 2015Length of book:
232 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781442243620
In this remarkable memoir, Milan Panic tells the formerly unknown story of his attempts to oust Slobodan Milosevic and his battles with the U.S. State Department in an effort to bring peace to the Balkans during the Yugoslav Wars. A young cycling champion who fought the Nazi occupation in Yugoslavia with Tito’s partisans, Panic defected after World War II from his now-communist country to start a new life in the United States. But his greatest challenge still lay ahead when he was invited to serve as prime minister of Yugoslavia. But in Belgrade, ancient enmities and suspicions festered, and the threat of tragedy and bloodshed loomed large as ethnic conflict raged. And even as Panic implored the West for support, he would have to outwit the machinations of a wily Serbian dictator, Slobodan Milosevic. Including behind-the-scenes details of his rivalry with Milosevic, this book is a compelling chronicle of the road to peace in the Balkans.
The recent publication of Milan Panic’s memoirs provides an interesting perspective on Belgrade’s perception of the Bosnian war. . . .Milan Panic’s memoirs provide a perspective of an outsider who was briefly at the core of Serbian politics. . . .Panic’s memoirs are useful in assembling the various perspectives of different actors in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.