Name: Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
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Author: Laurence Rees
ISBN: 9781610399654

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Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Type

Physical Book

Author

Laurence Rees

Publisher

PublicAffairs

Language

English

Pages

560

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.4 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9781610399654

Synopsis "Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War"

An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other in sweeping campaigns unlike anything the modern world had ever seen, affecting soldiers and civilians alike. Millions of miles of Eastern Europe were ruined in their fight to the death, millions of lives sacrificed. Laurence Rees has met more people who had direct experience of working for Hitler and Stalin than any other historian. Using their evidence he has pieced together a compelling comparative portrait of evil, in which idealism is polluted by bloody pragmatism, and human suffering is used casually as a political tool. It's a jaw-dropping description of two regimes stripped of moral anchors and doomed to destroy each other, and those caught up in the vicious magnetism of their leadership.

Laurence Rees

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Laurence Rees (born in 1957) is a British historian, documentary filmmaker, and author of books on the atrocities committed by totalitarian states during World War II. He has been a producer and creative director at the BBC for history programs and documentary series. His works are popularly used as educational material in British schools

His works have received several awards, including a BAFTA, two International Documentary, a British Book, and two Emmys.

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