Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

Oct 2012 · Sold by Basic Books

About this ebook

From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century.
 
Americans call the Second World War “the Good War.” But before it even began, America’s ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. 
  
Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, 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 story. With a new afterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy, Bloodlands is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today. 

Ratings and reviews

the forgotten Holocaust, totally ignored by the western school system. the plight of the Poles is particularly hearth breaking. We often blame Hitler for the start if WWII, we forget that Stalin was just as much to blame, they invaded Poland from the East when the Nazis invaded from the West. an excellent read providing the other pieces missing from the West's understand of the true horror of this period.....

Some enlightening if somewhat depressing reading

readable

About the author

Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. The author of thirteen books, including the bestsellers On Tyranny and Black Earth, his work has been translated into forty languages. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.