The bloodlands are the lands in between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - the lands where 14 million people where killed during the years 1933 - 1944.
Timothy Snyder received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997. He has held fellowships in Paris and Vienna, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard. He has written and edited a number of critically-acclaimed and prize-winning books about twentieth-century European history, including The Reconstruction of Nations, Sketches from a Secret War and The Red Prince. He is Professor of History at Yale University.
A remarkable study about suffering on an astonishing scale in
Eastern and Central Europe in the 1920s, 1930s and during the
Second World War
*History Today*
A hugely important historian of this nightmarish era. Nobody has
explained it this way before
*Evening Standard*
In his path-breaking and often courageous study of Europe's
'bloodlands,' Snyder shows how very much more complicated the story
was. His account of the methods and motives of murderous regimes,
both at home and in foreign war, will radically revise our
appreciation of the implications of mass extermination in the
recent past. Bloodlands - impeccably researched and appropriately
sensitive to its volatile material - is the most important book to
appear on this subject for decades and will surely become the
reference in its field
*Tony Judt*
The stunning contribution of Tim Snyder's book is to present a
synthetic account by an East European historian in which the focus
is on the geographic zone where the lethal policies of Hitler and
Stalin interacted, overlapped, and mutually escalated one another.
As Snyder vividly demonstrates, their combined impact on the people
living in the "bloodlands" was quite simply the greatest man-made
demographic catastrophe and human tragedy in European history
*Christopher R. Browning, author of 'Ordinary Men' and 'The Origins
of the Final Solution'*
Timothy Snyder has written a nuanced, original and penetrating
analysis of Europe's twentieth century killing fields between
Russia and Germany, drawing on many little-known sources. History
of a high order, Bloodlands may also point us towards lessons for
our own time
*Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of
Oxford, and author of The File*
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