Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini, 4th Edition

“Crisply written and authoritative, Bruce Pauley?s updated edition of this classic text offers students an invaluable comparative account of the three great dictatorships of earlier twentieth century Europe. He takes his readers through the main historical debates while providing considered guidance to the wider literature.”

-Professor Conan Fischer, University of St Andrews, Scotland

“In this new edition of his classic text, Bruce Pauley puts the dominant figures of the horrific first half of twentieth-century Europe into a comparative perspective. Whoever wishes to understand totalitarianism and dictatorship must turn to Pauley?s book. One of the leading experts of European history, he provides his readers with magnificent portraits of the persons responsible for Europe?s darkest period.”

-Anton Pelinka, Professor of Nationalism Studies and Political Science, Central European University, Budapest

Bruce F. Pauley, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Central Florida, is the author of six books on Nazism, anti-Semitism, totalitarianism, and the two world wars, as well as his autobiography, Pioneering History on Two Continents (2014).