The devils' alliance: Hitler's pact with Stalin, 1939-41

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Author's Note; Chronology; List of Maps; Introduction; Prologue: A Meeting on the Boundary of Peace; Chapter 1: The Devil's Potion; Chapter 2: Bonded in Blood; Chapter 3: Sharing the Spoils; Chapter 4: Contortions; Chapter 5: A Rough, Uncertain Wooing; Chapter 6: Oiling the Wheels of War; Chapter 7: Comrade "Stonearse" in the Lair of the Fascist Beast; Chapter 8: Riding the Nazi Tiger; Chapter 9: No Honor Among Thieves; Epilogue: Life After Death; Appendix: Text of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact; Acknowledgments; Notes.;History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two mammoth and opposing totalitarian regimes of World War II whose conflict would be the defining and deciding clash of the war. Yet for nearly a third of the conflict's entire timespan, Hitler and Stalin stood side by side as allies. In The Devils' Alliance, acclaimed historian Roger Moorhouse explores the causes and implications of the tenuous Nazi-Soviet pact, an unholy covenant whose creation and dissolution were crucial turning points in World War II. Indeed, this riveting chapter of World War II is.