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Hunting the tiger : the fast life and violent death of the Balkans' most dangerous man
- Title
- Hunting the tiger : the fast life and violent death of the Balkans' most dangerous man / Christopher S. Stewart.
- Author
- Stewart, Christopher S.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2008.
- Supplementary Content
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| Text | Request in advance | DR1321.A75 S74 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 320 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Zeljko "Arkan" Raznatovic began his life as a petty criminal, a juvenile delinquent adrift in the floundering state of Yugoslavia. He would eventually become famous throughout Western Europe: as the "smiling bank robber"; as a Houdini-like fugitive from multiple prisons; and even as a state-sponsored assassin." "Following Yugoslavia's chaotic descent into madness in the 1990s, Arkan would become not only a gangster but one of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's most valued henchmen in the country's civil war. He rallied Belgrade's notoriously violent soccer hooligans, paired them with inmates from Serbia's prisons, among other brutal street thugs, and trained them to become his ruthless foot soldiers, known as the "Tigers." During the war, the men rampaged through Croatia and Bosnia - killing, raping, burning, and looting." "His fame and good fortune, however, could not last. In 1999, as NATO bombs fell on Belgrade, The Hague's International War Crimes Tribunal indicted Arkan for crimes against humanity, the United States called for his arrest, the world media chased him, and mobster rivals wanted him dead. His days were numbered, and just after the Serbian New Year, he was shockingly assassinated in the crowded lobby of a high-profile Belgrade hotel."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-308) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. The Early Days -- 1. John Wayne Dreams -- 2. Taking Europe -- 3. How We Change -- 4. The Case of the Elusive Man -- 5. The Smiling Bank Robber -- 6. We Got You! No You Don't! -- 7. Breakout -- 8. Hit Man -- 9. The Man Arkan Didn't Kill -- Pt. II. The Warlord -- 10. My Fixer Milan and Our Search for Truth Among Serbia's Crime Lords -- 11. Cruising in the Pink Cadillac -- 12. Lord of the Soccer Warriors -- 13. The Tigers -- 14. What I Learned at Red Star Stadium -- 15. War! -- 16. The Dangers Out There -- 17. Camp Erdut -- 18. Vukovar: I Killed Twenty-four Ustache! -- 19. Because War Pays -- 20. Meeting the Tigers -- 21. My Name Is Trax; Arkan Made Me Do It -- 22. I Don't Give a Damn -- 23. Man of the People -- 24. Pop Star -- 25. War's Over -- Pt. III. The Assassination -- 26. This Is Serbia, You Wouldn't Understand -- 27. Going Legit -- 28. The End -- 29. If I Had a Magic Wand -- 30. The Kill.
- ISBN
- 9780312356064
- 0312356064
- LCCN
- 2007038918
- 40015052892
- OCLC
- 156832347
- ocn156832347
- SCSB-5388528
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries