A magisterial new history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between
Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during
the years 1933 - 1944

* In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and
Soviet regimes starved, shot and gassed fourteen million people in a zone of death
between Berlin and Moscow.

* These were the bloodlands - today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, western Russia and
the eastern Baltic coast. In a twelve-year period - 1933 to 1945 - as a result of
deliberate polices unrelated to combat, an average of more than a million civilians
were murdered annually. At the end of the Second World War the bloodlands fell
behind the iron curtain, leaving their history in darkness.

* In this revelatory book Timothy Snyder offers a groundbreaking investigation of
Europe's killing fields and a sustained explanation of the motives and methods of
both Hitler and Stalin. He anchors the history of Hitler's Holocaust and Stalin's
Terror in their time and place and provides a fresh account of the relationship
between the two regimes. Using scholarly literature and primary sources in all
relevant languages, Snyder pays special attention to the testimony of the victims:
the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries found on corpses.

* Brilliantly researched, profoundly humane, authoritative and original, Bloodlands
re-examines the greatest tragedy in European history and forces us to rethink our past.

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