Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Americans call the Second World War "The Good War." But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war's end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.

"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 history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, "Bloodlands" will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.

“"A startling new interpretation of the period ... a stunning book."-- David Denby , New Yorker”

"New York Times Book Review" "Timothy Snyder...compels us to look squarely at the full range of destruction committed first by Stalin's regime and then by Hitler's Reich. Each fashioned a terrifying orgy of deliberate mass killing.... Snyder punctuates his comprehensive and eloquent account with brief glimpses of individual victims, perpetrators and witnesses." "The New Republic," Editors' Picks: Best Books of 2010 "Between 1933 and 1945, 14 million people were murdered in Eastern Europe. "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin "catalogues how, where, and why these millions died. The cumulative effect makes you reconsider every aspect of modern Europe and World War II. Along the way, Snyder achieves something more vital: he wrests back some human dignity for those who died, without treating them solely as victims." "Washington"" Post" "Snyder's research is careful and thorough, his narrative powerful.... By including Soviet with German mass atrocities in his purview, Timothy Snyder begins the necessary but as yet still taboo examination of the full depravity of total war as it was practiced in the 20th century, before the advent of nuclear weapons foreclosed it." "The Economist," Books of the Year "How Stalin and Hitler enabled each other's crimes and killed 14m people between the Baltic and the Black Sea. A lifetime's work by a Yale University historian who deserves to be read and reread." "The Financial Times" "[A] superb and harrowing history.... Snyder presents material that is undeniably fresh - what's more, it comes from sources in languages with which very few western academics are familiar. The success of "Bloodlands" really lies in its effective presentation of cold, hard scholarship, which is in abundance." Ian Thomson, "Telegraph" (UK) "In this scrupulously researched history.... Snyder does not argue for a supposed moral equivalence between Hitler's extermination of the Jews and the earliert

TIMOTHY SNYDER, a reforming lead-bottomed administrator, is Executive Director of Colorado Online Learning. He is a recipient of the Colorado Communicator of the Year award, the Governor's Award for Excellence in Education, and the American Association of School Administrators President's Technology Award.

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