In this revelatory book, the author offers a groundbreaking investigation of Europe's killing fields and a sustained explanation of the motives and methods of both Hitler and Stalin. He anchors the history of Hitler's Holocaust and Stalin's Terror in their time and place and provides a fresh account of the relationship between the two regimes.
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ISBN:9780465002399 (hc.)
Physical Description:xix, 524 p. : maps ; 25 cm. print
Publisher:New York : Basic Books, c2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-462) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Hitler and Stalin -- The Soviet famines -- Class terror -- National terror -- Molotov-Ribbentrop Europe -- The economics of apocalypse -- Final solution -- Holocaust and revenge -- The Nazi death factories -- Resistance and incineration -- Ethnic cleansings -- Stalinist antisemitism -- Humanity.
Summary: In this revelatory book, the author offers a groundbreaking investigation of Europe's killing fields and a sustained explanation of the motives and methods of both Hitler and Stalin. He anchors the history of Hitler's Holocaust and Stalin's Terror in their time and place and provides a fresh account of the relationship between the two regimes.
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