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Bloodlands
- Author
- Timothy Snyder
- Narrator
- Ralph Cosham
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 2 October 2018
- Run Time
- 19 hours 14 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The definitive history of Hitler and Stalin's politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century, from the author of the international bestseller, On Tyranny.
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. Bloodlands is a required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today.
Critics Review
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"A startling new interpretation of the period ... a stunning book."—David Denby, New Yorker
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"A superb and harrowing history."—Financial Times
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"Genuinely shattering.... I have never seen a book like it."—Istvan Deak, New Republic
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"A brave and original history of mass killing in the twentieth century."—Anne Applebaum, New York Review of Books
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"A magisterial work.... Snyder's account in engaging, encyclopedic."—Foreign Affairs
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"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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"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
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"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)
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Details
- Author
- Timothy Snyder
- Narrator
- Ralph Cosham
- Duration
- 19 hours 14 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 October 2018
- ISBN
- 9781549116698
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Second World War, The Holocaust, Social and cultural history
Synopsis
The definitive history of Hitler and Stalin's politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century, from the author of the international bestseller, On Tyranny. 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. Bloodlands is a required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today.
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