Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin - Softcover

Snyder, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465031471 ISBN 13: 9780465031474

Publisher: Basic Books, 2012

Synopsis

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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Review:

"A superb and harrowing history."--Financial Times

"Snyder...compels us to look squarely at the full range of destruction committed first by Stalin's regime and then by Hitler's Reich.... A comprehensive and eloquent account."--New York Times Book Revew

"A superb work of scholarship, full of revealing detail, cleverly compiled...and in places beautifully written.... Snyder does justice to the horror of his subject through the power of storytelling."--The Sunday Times (London)

"Genuinely shattering.... I have never seen a book like it."--Istvan Deak, New Republic

"A startling new interpretation of the period ... a stunning book."--David Denby, New Yorker

"A brave and original history of mass killing in the twentieth century."--Anne Applebaum, New York Review of Books

"A magisterial work.... Snyder's account in engaging, encyclopedic."--Foreign Affairs

"Gripping and comprehensive.... Mr. Snyder's book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europe's modern history."--Economist

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Gripping and comprehensive.... Snyder’s book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europe’s modern history.', The Economist

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0465031471
• ISBN 13: 9780465031474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560