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Hitler and Stalin
- The Tyrants and the Second World War
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
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The best-selling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants.
This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of 30 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 utopias 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Using previously unpublished, startling eyewitness testimony from soldiers of the Red Army and Wehrmacht, civilians who suffered during the conflict and those who knew both men personally, best-selling 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 master work from one of our finest historians.
Critic reviews
"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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- Border Collie
- 09-12-20
Good comparison and interesting detail.
I was worried that this format would be disjointed and it took a while to get into, but the book follows the historical narrative of WW2 and gets better deeper into the story. One issue I had with the performance was that Operation Bagration was pronounced so that the second part of each word sounded the same. I an not a Russian speaker but every other pronunciation I have heard is Bag-Rat-See-On. A small complaint but listen out for it!
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- djmp
- 23-12-20
Superbly told
an illuminating chastening telling of two leaders (ciminals);, a rampant racist and a ruthless psychopath
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- Dreamer
- 23-02-23
Fantastic Analysis
Tyrants with utopian vision can inflict unimaginable horror to the world. The malleability of the human mind especially on a large scale and trauma it bequeaths
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- william franks
- 16-10-21
One wonderful book
Narration on this book is first class and the contents of the book is superb. It's an ideal book for anyone interested in the holocaust. I would definitely recommend it.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-01-23
Masterpiece
Accessible, well-written and insightful. Suits both new to WWII deep-dives as well as those with a lot of knowledgeable. Just brilliant.
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- D. R. Boorman
- 15-03-21
Narrator bumming alert
Most peculiar that the narrator was being bummed during the recording. Most irregular as he is sheathed
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- TonyC
- 18-05-23
Brilliant
A thoroughly well researched work. Fascinating detail from the eyewitness accounts. Excellent narration. Highly recommended.
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- Ben Woolrych
- 30-03-21
fascinating listening
Very well written book with pages of interesting insights into these extraordinary tyrants. wonderfully delivered performance too.
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- lawbru
- 12-08-22
A massive, seemingly impossible story to write.
A huge task to record the views of peoples in many parts of the world. A task the author succeeds in doing.
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- Christopher Wall
- 24-12-22
Superb
Well written and narrated, a very concise and clear account of the two protagonists
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