A magisterial new history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944
'When Timothy Snyder's book Bloodlands- Europe Between Hitler and
Stalin was published in 2010, it quickly established its author as
one of the leading historians of his generation, a scholar who
combined formidable linguistic skills - he reads or speaks 11
languages - with an elegant literary style, white-hot moral passion
and a willingness to start arguments about some of the most fraught
questions of the recent past.' New York Times
Timothy Snyder is Levin Professor of History at Yale University,
and has written and edited a number of critically acclaimed and
prize-winning books about twentieth-century European history-
Bloodlands won the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Book Prize for
European Understanding, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award in the
Humanities and the literature award of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters. Black Earth was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson
Prize.
Snyder is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books
and the Times Literary Supplement. He is a member of the Committee
on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a
permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences, and sits on
the advisory council of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.
A hugely important historian of this nightmarish era. Nobody has
explained it this way before
*Evening Standard*
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