Bloodlands - Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Author(s): Timothy Snyder

History

"In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow.In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields today s Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast an average of more than one million citizens were slaughtered every year, as a result of deliberate policies unrelated to combat. In his revelatory book Timothy Snyder offers a ground-breaking investigation into the motives and methods of Stalin and Hitler and, using scholarly literature and primary sources, pays special attention to the testimony of the victims, including the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries on corpses. The result is a brilliantly researched, profoundly humane, authoritative and original book that forces us to re-examine the greatest tragedy in European history and re-think our past."


Product Information

A magisterial new history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944

"A hugely important historian of this nightmarish era. Nobody has explained it this way before" -- William Leith Evening Standard

Timothy Snyder received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997. He has held fellowships in Paris and Vienna, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard. He has written and edited a number of critically-acclaimed and prize-winning books about twentieth-century European history, including The Reconstruction of Nations, Sketches from a Secret War and The Red Prince. He is Professor of History at Yale University.

General Fields

  • : 9780099551799
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Vintage
  • : 0.438
  • : May 2011
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 39mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : maps
  • : HBTZ
  • : 544
  • : good
  • : 940.54/050947
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Timothy Snyder