Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
By Timothy Snyder
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From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s wars against the civilians of Europe in World War Two 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. Bloodlands won twelve awards, was named to twelve best book-of-the-year lists, has been translated into more than thirty languages, and was a bestseller in six countries.
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Winner of the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature
Winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought
A Literary Hub Pick of Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade
Winner of the Leipzig Award for European Understanding
Winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal
Winner of the Emerson Prize in the Humanities
From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s wars against the civilians of Europe in World War Two
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.
Bloodlands won twelve awards, was named to twelve best book-of-the-year lists, has been translated into more than thirty languages, and was a bestseller in six countries.
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Available Formats : | CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/History |
Runtime: | 19.24 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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