Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives

by Alan Bullock

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Alan Bullock's bestselling and monumental masterpiece, now in a revised Second Edition 'It is practically unprecedented to take two such monsters as Hitler and Stalin, who never met, and interweave their lives chronologically, chapter by chapter, often paragraph by paragraph, as Bullock has done!a triumph of organization, lucidity and perspective.' John Campbell, The Times 'Compulsive reading. The sweep is broad and the information concisely conveyed without any sign of pedantry!a titanic narrative history.' Zara Steiner, Financial Times 'An astonishing feat of organization, brilliantly illuminating the tragic history of the twentieth century.' Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 'If you knew nothing about the twentieth century and were allowed one book to bone up on it, this would have to be it.' Alex Campbell, Daily Mail

Book details

Published
06/07/1998

Publisher
Fontana Press

ISBN
9780006863748



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UK Kirkus review

This book provides a justification for the Oxford classical system; for its author read classical Mods and Greats before he went over to modern history (securing first classes in all three). He uses the wisdom he learnt from Socrates and Thucydides to explain the two monstrous subjects of his dual biography: looked at from an almost Olympian detachment, neither Hitler nor Stalin seems quite as terrifying as both did to their victims when they were terrorizing their own and fighting each others' subjects in the 1930s and early 1940s. Lord Bullock has a thorough mastery over politics and warfare as well as history, and strong and broad human sympathies as well; this is a most impressive study in meglomania and a memorably good book. (Kirkus UK)

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