Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

A magisterial history of the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million civilians were murdered during the years 1933-1944

Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow.

The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia. For twelve savage years, on this bloodsoaked soil an average of one million individuals - mostly women, children and the aged - were murdered every year. Though in 1939 these lands became battlefields, not one of these fourteen million was killed in combat. They were victims of a murderous policy, not casualties of war.

Int his deeply unsettling and revelatory book, Timothy Snyder gives voice to the testimony of the victims through the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries on corpses. It is a brilliantly researched, profoundly humane and authoritative bok that demands we pay attention to those that history is in danger of forgetting.

Review

"A brave and original history of mass killing in the twentieth century."--Anne Applebaum, New York Review of Books

"A magisterial work.... Snyder's account in engaging, encyclopedic."--Foreign Affairs

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

"A superb and harrowing history."--Financial Times

"A superb work of scholarship, full of revealing detail, cleverly compiled...and in places beautifully written.... Snyder does justice to the horror of his subject through the power of storytelling."--The Sunday Times (London)

"Genuinely shattering.... I have never seen a book like it."--Istvan Deak, New Republic

"Gripping and comprehensive.... Mr. Snyder's book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europe's modern history."--Economist

"Snyder...compels us to look squarely at the full range of destruction committed first by Stalin's regime and then by Hitler's Reich.... A comprehensive and eloquent account."--New York Times Book Revew

"A gigantic achievement in modern history."--Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show

About the Author

Timothy Snyder?is a professor of history at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. The author of thirteen books, including the bestsellers?On Tyranny?and?Black Earth, his work has been translated into forty languages. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.