Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
by Timothy Snyder
Recommended by 4 notable people, including Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel
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Americans call the Second World War ?The Good War.? But before it even began, America?s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens?and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war?s end, both the German and the Sovie...
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