Helen Roche: 2 books
Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of "transnational history," Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is, first and foremost, a stunning example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Snyder's linguistic precocity allows him to cite evidence in 10 languages, putting fresh twists...
The Hitler Myth
Image and Reality in the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Few historical problems are more baffling in retrospect than the conundrum of how Hitler was able to rise to power in Germany and then command the German people – many of whom had only marginal interest in or affiliation to Nazism – and the Nazi state. It took Ian Kershaw – author of the standard...