Bloodlands – [AUDIOBOOK]

Bloodlands – [AUDIOBOOK]
mp3 | 753.33 MB | Author: Timothy Snyder | Year: 2012

Description:

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 demacy, Bloodlands is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today.

Category:History, Awards, Social Sciences, Current Affairs & Politics, European History, Asian History, Social Sciences – General & Miscellaneous, Military History, World History, Jewish Studies, Political Theory & Ideology, Russian & Soviet History, Eastern European History, Discrimination & Prejudice, World War II, German History, Armed Forces History, Jewish History, Fascism, 1917-1991 (Soviet Union) – History, General & Miscellaneous Military History, 1917 – 1991 (Soviet Union) – History, Eastern Europe – General & Miscellaneous History, Ethnic Conflict & Genocide, European Theater – World War II – Axis, German History – 1933 – 1945 (The Third Reich), Germany – Armed Forces, Holocaust – General & Miscellaneous, National Socialism, Russian Revolution – 1917-1921, Stalinist Era (1928-1953), War Crimes, World War II – General & Miscellaneous, World War II – Social Aspects, 2011 Cundill History Prize Finalists, Atlantic’s Best Books of 2010 Runners Up, Seattle Times Best Nonfiction of 2010