Unef The Yugoslav Contingent Yugoslav Army Contingent In The Sinai Peninsula 19561967 Bojan Dimitrijevic by Bojan Dimitrijevic 9781915070227, 1915070228 instant download after payment.

During the Cold War, Yugoslavia, lead by its undisputed ruler Marshal Josip Broz Tito, played a much more important part than its real size and power would suggest, mostly thanks to its unique position for much of the Cold War. Such a position was achieved after Tito’s break with Stalin in 1948, siding with the NATO Allies after 1951, and establishing firm ties with so-called Third World states, later known as the Non-Aligned Movement. Being a communist state but not behind the “Iron Curtain”, Tito’s Yugoslavia was sometimes portrayed in the West as a model and example for many developing countries and even more so as a crack in the monolith of the Communist world. With such a reputation, after the Suez Crisis in November 1956 Yugoslavia was welcomed to dispatch a formidable unit to the peacekeeping operation on the Sinai Peninsula. …