Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia

4.2/5 ( ratings)

If the past century will be remembered for its tragic pairing of civilized achievement and organized destruction, at the heart of darkness may be found Hitler, Stalin, and the systems of domination they forged. Their lethal regimes murdered millions and fought a massive, deadly war. Yet their dictatorships took shape within formal constitutional structures and drew the support of the German and Russian people. In the first major historical work to analyze the two dictatorships together in depth, Richard Overy gives us an absorbing study of Hitler and Stalin, ranging from their private and public selves, their ascents to power and consolidation of absolute rule, to their waging of massive war and creation of far-flung empires of camps and prisons. The Nazi extermination camps and the vast Soviet Gulag represent the two dictatorships in their most inhuman form. Overy shows us the human and historical roots of these evils.

Language: English

Pages: 922

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: January 17, 2006

ISBN: 0393327973

ISBN 13: 9780393327977

The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia

4.2/5 ( ratings)

If the past century will be remembered for its tragic pairing of civilized achievement and organized destruction, at the heart of darkness may be found Hitler, Stalin, and the systems of domination they forged. Their lethal regimes murdered millions and fought a massive, deadly war. Yet their dictatorships took shape within formal constitutional structures and drew the support of the German and Russian people. In the first major historical work to analyze the two dictatorships together in depth, Richard Overy gives us an absorbing study of Hitler and Stalin, ranging from their private and public selves, their ascents to power and consolidation of absolute rule, to their waging of massive war and creation of far-flung empires of camps and prisons. The Nazi extermination camps and the vast Soviet Gulag represent the two dictatorships in their most inhuman form. Overy shows us the human and historical roots of these evils.

Language: English

Pages: 922

Format: Paperback

Publisher: W. W. Norton Company

Release: January 17, 2006

ISBN: 0393327973

ISBN 13: 9780393327977

More books from Richard Overy

Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Why the Allies Won

4.1/5 ( ratings)

1939: Countdown to War

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Battle Of Britain: Myth and Reality

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Times Complete History of the World

4.1/5 ( ratings)

A History of War in 100 Battles

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Third Reich: A Chronicle

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Origins of the Second World War

3.7/5 ( ratings)

RAF: The Birth of the World's First Air Force

The IWM Second World War Experience Vol 2: Axis Ascendant 1941-42

4.1/5 ( ratings)

NEW YORK TIMES COMPLETE WORLD WAR II: The Coverage of the Entire Conflict

4.2/5 ( ratings)

World War II Chronicle

4.1/5 ( ratings)

WWII Remembered: From Blitzkrieg Through to the Allied Victory

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Antrasis pasaulinis karas. Iliustruotas istorijos vadovas

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The New York Times Book of World War II 1939-1945: The Coverage from the Battlefield to the Home Front

2.6/5 ( ratings)

The National Interest (July/August 2011)

2.3/5 ( ratings)

All About History: Book of World War II 70th Anniversary Edition

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?