Slobodan Milosevic - Belgrade's tyrant and successor to Tito, 'Butcher of the Balkans' - represents, in many ways, the final shudder of that particularly aggressive 20th-century brand of the creature that was nationalism His life story is a study in evil in the 'banality of evil' to use Hannah Arendt's famous phrase With all the intensity and horror of personal experience, Vidosav Stevanovic tells how Milosevic, a man devoid of any true qualities, climbed his way to the top in slow, silent, murderous steps