Both were entirely serious about their historic roles, the author says. The book was published in multiple languages including language, consists of 1152 pages and is available in paperback format. It is a wellwritten, informative and on the whole a well structured book. Hitler and stalin by alan bullock, 9780006863748, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. In the second half of the twentieth century, americans were taught to see both nazi germany and the soviet union as the greatest of evils. Hitler believed that britain would never take him on alone, so he decided to swallow his fear and loathing of communism and cozy up to the soviet dictator, thereby. Nazi germany began to kill on the soviet scale only after the molotovribbentrop pact in the summer of 1939 and the joint germansoviet invasion of poland that september.
An icon in the shape of a persons head and shoulders. I cant stand preachy books about hitler and stalin. Indeed it was stalin, not hitler, who initiated the first ethnic killing campaigns in interwar europe. Parallel lives, by the british historian alan bullock, published in 1992, is. The book is long nearly 980 pages without including another 100 pages of appendices, footnotes, reference sources, etc. Europe between hitler and stalin, examines some of. The german invasion of the soviet union on june 22, 194. A professor of eastern european history at yale, his most recent book, bloodlands. Hitler was a fierce nationalist, stalin an antinationalist who turned his back on his georgian compatriots and persecuted them as much as he did the other peoples of the soviet union. The book is a good introduction to the motivations and men who monstrously led the soviet union and nazi germany. I dont need you to tell me someone is evil, diabolical, just tell. Parallel lives, by the british historian alan bullock, published in 1992, is the best and certainly, at. June 1941 is a succinct essay on hitlers invasion of the soviet union on june 22, 1941. How should we factor it into the growing historicalmoralpolitical argument over how to compare hitlers and.
In this provocative revisionist analysis of the war between hitler and stalin, mosier provides a dramatic, vigorous narrative of events as he shows how most previous histories accepted stalins lies and distortions to produce a false sense of soviet triumph. Hitler and stalin parallel lives by alan bullock illustrated. The secret dossier prepared for stalin is the englishlanguage title of the translated 2005 publication of a longsecret soviet report on the life of adolf hitler written at the behest of joseph stalin. Parallel lives by alan bullock is a highly engrossing book that chronicles the key events in the lives of both dictators in a sidebyside comparison to give a sense of the differences in their respective styles and personalities.
Stalin, hitler and the temptations of totalitarianism. The book ends by praising the european day of remembrance for. The closest they came was a pair of meetings that molotov had with hitler in berlin, in november of 1940. Hitler and stalin parallel lives by alan bullock is a very good book about arguably the two dominant figures in twentieth century history. Parallel lives by alan bullock is a highly engrossing book that chronicles the key events in the lives of both dictators in a sidebyside comparison. Donald trumps exwife once said trump kept a book of hitlers speeches by. Until world war ii, stalins regime was by far the more murderous of the two. 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. Stalin killed eight million ukranians among others. Churchill vs hitler dealing with the beginning of world war ii in the west. The first edition of this novel was published in 1991, and was written by alan bullock.