Bloodlands

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592 pages | Paperback

From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitlers and Stalinspolitics of masskilling, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century.

Americans call the SecondWorld War the Good War. But before it even began, Americas ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizensand 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 theIronCurtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.

Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive,Bloodlandsis a newkind of Europeanhistory, presentingthe mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a singlestory.With a newafterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy,Bloodlandsis required reading for anyoneseekingto understand the central tragedy of modern historyanditsmeaningtoday.