Franjo Tuđman’s Bespuca povijesne zbiljnosti is a provocative, influential work by the first president of independent Croatia that blends historiography, national narrative, and political argument. Written with the intent to reinterpret Croatian history through a lens of national revival and state legitimacy, the book aims to recover what Tuđman saw as misread or suppressed episodes of the nation’s past and to offer a corrective to prevailing academic and political narratives of the 20th century.