1a Josip Broz (centre, back row in cap) at the metal goods factory at Kamnik, Slovenia in 1912.

1b Josip Broz (with hat and long tie) and the owners and staff of the mill at Veliko Trojstvo, Croatia in 1924.

2a Josip Broz at Maribor, Slovenia in 1933 after five years in prison.

2b Stalin, the former idol whom Tito came to despise.

3a The founders of the Communist state at Jajce in 1943. From left to right: Ranković, Djilas, Tito, Žujevic, Hebrang, Pijade, Kardelj.

3b Tito and Churchill meet in the Bay of Naples, 1944.

4 Tito in 1952 with his second wife Jovanka and his son Misa by Hertha Hass.

5 Tito in 1950 posing with one of a line of dogs called ‘Tiger’.

6a Tito welcomes Nikita Khrushchev at Belgrade airport in 1963.

6b Tito and his biographer Vladimir Dedijer. On the right is Koča Popović.

7a Tito receives Richard Burton and his wife Elizabeth Taylor on Brioni island in August 1971. Burton is to play Tito in the Hollywood film The Battle of Sutjeska.

7b Tito in hospital shortly after the amputation of his right leg in January 1980.

8 Tito’s funeral was attended by Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who, ten years later, advocated the break-up of Yugoslavia.