Bloodlands — Timothy Snyder

Snyder examines the territory between Germany and Russia — Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic states — as a distinct zone of political violence in which both Nazi and Soviet policies converged between 1933 and 1945. Roughly fourteen million people were killed in this region as deliberate acts of state policy, yet the history has been fragmented across national narratives that each suppress part of what happened. Snyder reconstructs it as a single story, insisting on the individuality of the victims against the tendency of mass death to become merely statistical.

Winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, and numerous other honours. 'A landmark work of historical inquiry.' — Tony Judt. 'Snyder has written a book of profound moral seriousness. It is essential reading.' — New York Times Book Review