An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them.
Although Hitler and Stalin uses all the significant sources one would expect in a scholarly work, time and again it is the brand new personal testimony that has never appeared before in print that rivets the reader ... Of course, Rees is far too experienced an historian to take all of this at face value ... As this book brilliantly shows, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were blood brothers.
... riveting ... Rees brings this six-year period vividly alive ... Rees’ skillful incorporation of these eyewitness accounts, carefully checked for reliability, gives a 'you are there' feeling to events ... Rees gives us detailed, nuanced portraits of these two men ... There are other fine, very long biographies of these dictators. However, this excellent book for the general reader is shorter and gives an authoritative and very readable understanding of who Hitler and Stalin were and what they did.
