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  • Roosevelt and Stalin

    Portrait of a Partnership

    by Susan Butler

    A hugely important book that solely and fully explores for the first time the complex partnership during World War II between FDR and Stalin, by the editor of My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin (“History owes a debt to Susan Butler for the collection and annotation of these exchanges”—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr).Making use of previously ... Read more

    € 10,67

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    Roosevelt and Stalin

    Portrait of a Partnership

    by Susan Butler

    Narrated by George Guidall

    Unabridged

    21 hours 47 min

    Susan Butler's brilliantly readable book firmly places FDR where he belongs, as the American president engaged most directly in diplomacy and strategy, who not only had an ambitious plan for the postwar world, but had the strength, ambition and personal charm to overcome Churchill's reluctance and Stalin's suspicion to bring about what was, in effect, an American peace, and to avoid the disastrous ... Read more

    € 27,88

  • Eight Days at Yalta

    How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World

    by Diana Preston

    Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast and intermittent bonhomie they decided on the conduct of the final stages of the war against Germany, on ... Read more

    € 12,85

  • Shostakovich and Stalin

    The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictato r

    by Solomon Volkov

    “Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later under the totalitarian rule of Stalin, with his unpredictable grounds for the persecution of artists. ... Read more

    € 11,54

  • Bloodlands

    Europe between Hitler and Stalin

    by Timothy Snyder

    In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields - today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast - an average of more than one million citizens were slaughtered every year, as a result of ... Read more

    € 9,49

  • Hitler and Stalin

    The Tyrants and the Second World War

    by Laurence Rees

    The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants'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 ... Read more

    € 17,99

  • Night of the Assassins

    The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin

    by Howard Blum

    "A truly thrilling expose of the previously unknown Nazi assassination plot that could have changed history." — Edward Jay Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of The Assassination ChroniclesThe New York Times bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and suspenseful as any thriller: the true story of the Nazi plot to kill the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S ... Read more

    € 16,78

  • Bloodlands

    Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

    by Timothy Snyder

    From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in World War II.Americans call the Second World War "The Good War."But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens--and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had ... Read more

    € 12,99

  • Love and Stalin

    7 Love Stories You Don't Know About

    by Dmitri Pisarenko

    Today lots of people are dissatisfied with their relationships. Many gurus and "gurus" claim in order to have a fulfilled love life, one needs to be more spriritual. The problem is - they don't even hint, how to do that without spending years or even decades in faraway countries. In this book you can find inspiration on  how truly enlightened relationships really work, why the normal way of ... Read more

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  • Nomads and Soviet Rule

    Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin

    by Alun Thomas

    series Library of Modern Russia
    The nomads of Central Asia were already well accustomed to life under the power of a distant capital when the Bolsheviks fomented revolution on the streets of Petrograd. Yet after the fall of the Tsar, the nature, ambition and potency of that power would change dramatically, ultimately resulting in the near eradication of Central Asian nomadism.Based on extensive primary source work in Almaty, ... Read more

    € 30,07

  • Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes

    Architecture and Stalin’s Revolution from Above, 1928-1938

    by Dr Danilo Udovicki-Selb

    Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's totalitarianism. Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges that view. Radically redefining the historiography of the period, it reveals how the relationship between the Party and practicing architects was much more complex and contradictory than ... Read more

    € 86,64