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100	1		_aRees, Laurence, _d1957- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHitler and Stalin : _bthe tyrants and the Second World War / _cLaurence Rees.
250			_aFirst US edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bPublic Affairs, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_axxxviii, 488 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps, portraits ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
336			_acartographic image _bcri _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Originally published in 2020 by Viking, part of the Penguin Random House group of companies."--Title page verso.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe pact -- Eliminating Poland -- Opposite fortunes -- Dreams and nightmares -- Hitler's war of annihilation -- Invasion -- Desperate days -- A World War -- Hunger -- Stalin's overreach -- Across the Steppe -- Struggle on the Volga -- Fighting on -- Fiction and reality -- Mass killing -- Collapse of the centre -- Dying days -- Victory and defeat -- Afterword.
520			_aThe bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants. This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work - examines the two tyrants during the Second World War, 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 Utopia 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. Using previously unpublished, startling eyewitness testimony from soldiers of the Red Army and Wehrmacht, civilians who suffered during the conflict, and those who knew both men personally, bestselling historian Laurence Rees - probably the only person alive who has met Germans who worked for Hitler and Russians who worked for Stalin - challenges long-held popular misconceptions about two of the most important figures in history. This is a masterwork from one of our finest historians.
600	1	0	_aHitler, Adolf, _d1889-1945. _922471
600	1	0	_aStalin, Joseph, _d1878-1953. _9276364
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zGermany. _97112
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zSoviet Union. _9116569
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xAtrocities. _928260
651		0	_aGermany _xPolitics and government _y1933-1945. _922918
651		0	_aSoviet Union _xPolitics and government _y1936-1953. _931362
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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