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Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

By Timothy Snyder

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2010
ISBN
0465002390, 9780465002399
Open Library ID
OL24616724M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9063994 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
545\545
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.

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