Bloodlands

About this book

The definitive history of Hitler and Stalins 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 Americas 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 wars 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.