Hitler and Stalin : the tyrants and the Second World War

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Label

Hitler and Stalin : the tyrants and the Second World War

Title remainder

the tyrants and the Second World War

Statement of responsibility

Laurence Rees

Creator

• Rees, Laurence, 1957-

Subject

• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
• Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953
• Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
• Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union
• Warfare and Defence

Language

eng

Summary

This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of 30 years' work - examines the two tyrants during WWII, when Germany and the Soviet Union fought the biggest and bloodiest war in history. Yet despite the fact they were bitter opponents, Laurence Rees shows that Hitler and Stalin were, to a large extent, different sides of the same coin. Hitler's charismatic leadership may contrast with Stalin's regimented rule by fear; and his intransigence later in the war may contrast with Stalin's change in behaviour in response to events. But at a macro level, both were prepared to create undreamt-of suffering, destroy individual liberty and twist facts in order to build the utopias they wanted, and while Hitler's creation of the Holocaust remains a singular crime, Rees shows why we must not forget that Stalin committed a series of atrocities at the same time

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 940.5'343
• 940.5'343
• 940.5'343
• 940.5343

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography