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Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War Audiobook
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"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane war in history."―Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and Hitler: Nemesis
Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other in sweeping campaigns unlike anything the modern world had ever seen, affecting soldiers and civilians alike. Millions of miles of Eastern Europe were ruined in their fight to the death, millions of lives sacrificed.
Laurence Rees has met more people who had direct experience of working for Hitler and Stalin than any other historian. Using their evidence he has pieced together a compelling comparative portrait of evil, in which idealism is polluted by bloody pragmatism, and human suffering is used casually as a political tool. It's a jaw-dropping description of two regimes stripped of moral anchors and doomed to destroy each other, and those caught up in the vicious magnetism of their leadership.
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"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane war in history."—Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler - Hubris and Hitler - Nemesis"
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Rees is incredibly successful with this dual biography of the most notorious figures of the 20th century, focusing specifically on the war years.
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Via meticulous research and mesmerizing testimonies, Rees expertly reveals the 'malleability of the human mind'.
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This richly detailed history powerfully documents the destruction that tyrants with utopian visions can inflict upon the world.
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In this fascinating study of two monsters, Rees is extraordinarily perceptive and original.
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Coming from one of the world's experts on the Second World War, this is an important and original - and devastating - account of Hitler and Stalin as dictators. A must read.
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Presenting this complex history with his usual clarity, his latest study is an enthralling read, weaving many fresh eyewitness accounts into the narrative, offering new insights and commanding his reader's attention despite the huge scope of his task.
— Julia Boyd, author of Travelers in the Third Reich -
A vivid and terrifying portrait of the twentieth century's two most brutal tyrants. His mastery of the subject shines through on every page. Provocative, gripping and full of fresh insights, Hitler and Stalin is narrative history at its very best.
— Henry Hemming, author of Churchill's Iceman -
Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane war in history.
— Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler - Hubris and Hitler - Nemesis -
Via meticulous research and mesmerizing testimonies, Rees expertly reveals the 'malleability of the human mind'.
— Kirkus Reviews, starred review -
This excellent book for the general reader is shorter and gives an authoritative and very readable understanding of who Hitler and Stalin were and what they did.
— BookPage
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About Laurence Rees
Laurence Rees has won the British Book Award for History Book of the Year 2006 for his international bestseller Auschwitz: The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution’. His career as a writer and filmmaker, focusing on the Nazis and World War II, stretches back nearly twenty years and includes the acclaimed television series Nazis: A Warning from History, War of the Century, Horror in the East, and, most recently, Auschwitz: The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution’. The body of work has won him a myriad of awards including a BAFTA, a Grierson Award, and an international Documentary Award. He was educated at Solihull School and Oxford University and is Creative Director of BBC TV History programs.
About John Sackville
John Sackville is an English actor and voice artist. He studied at St. Andrews University and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He has since acted on stage and on camera and has narrated a number of audiobooks, computer games, documentaries, and commercials.