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Book reviews: Milosevic: Not your ordinary family man
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MILOSEVIC
Adam LeBor
Bloomsbury, GBP 20
IT WAS Hannah Arendt who gave us the memorable phrase "the
banality of evil", speaking of Adolph Eichmann as he stood trial. It
makes an equally apt description of the pugnacious figure, at the
Hague war crimes tribunal, of Slobodan Milosevic, a man who unleashed
a war that claimed 200,000 lives, yet still maintains he did nothing
wrong.
According to Mira, his extravagantly coiffured wife, Slobo was
never really meant to be a politician. "Fundamentally," she says, "he
has the personality of a bank manager." And at risk of giving grave
insult to bank ...
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