Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives
by:
Alan Bullock (author)
Forty years after his Hitler: A Study in Tyranny set a standard for scholarship of the Nazi era, Lord Alan Bullock gives readers a breathtakingly accomplished dual biography that places Adolf Hitler's origins, personality, career, and legacy alongside those of Joseph Stalin--his implacable...
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Forty years after his Hitler: A Study in Tyranny set a standard for scholarship of the Nazi era, Lord Alan Bullock gives readers a breathtakingly accomplished dual biography that places Adolf Hitler's origins, personality, career, and legacy alongside those of Joseph Stalin--his implacable antagonist and moral mirror image.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679729945 (0679729941)
Publish date: November 2nd 1993
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 1152
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
War,
Politics,
Russia,
World War II,
European History,
Holocaust,
Germany
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A monster of book about two very bad men doing horrible things to people. However, the book is also about what lead to their rise of power as well the effects the men had on the world around them. Fascinating as well as disturbing
This baby weighs just over 2kg - or, in real money, just a soupçon under 4½ lbs. Also have a digi version to highlight and copy Group read starting on The Ides of March 2013. Join Bird Brian here: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/84205-hitler-and-stalin-by-alan-bullock--group-readTo watch: http:/...
Must Read -- One of the truly great works of historical synthesis in the 20th century.