The Devils' Alliance

The Devils’ Alliance is a marvellous achievement. No event was more crucial to the outbreak of the Second World War than the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939, and no one is better qualified to explore its grim implications than Roger Moorhouse – Norman DaviesSuperbly researched and academically impeccable, yet written with all the pace of a thriller, The Devils’ Alliance shines a powerful beam into one of the undeservedly least known aspects of the Second World War – Andrew RobertsMeticulous and vividly readable… Moorhouse’s grim and compelling book could not be more topical * Sunday Telegraph *A highly enjoyable history written with verve and attention to detail * Financial Times *Superb – Brendan Simms * Wall Street Journal *Authoritative and highly readable – Lawrence James * The Times *Lucid and well-researched – Keith Lowe * Mail on Sunday *Elegant * Independent *Moorhouse is the best guide now available to explain…the awful consequences for those caught in the unscrupulous coils of dictatorship – Richard Overy * Literary Review *Thorough and eloquent… a scholarly yet accessible reminder of the frighteningly tangible costs of totalitarianism * New Statesman *

Roger Moorhouse is an historian and author specialising in modern German history. He is the co-author, with Norman Davies, of Microcosm- Portrait of a Central European City, and the author of Killing Hitler and Berlin at War.

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