{"product_id":"bloodlands-hardback","title":"Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSnyder, Timothy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmericans call the Second World War “the Good War.” But before it even began, America’s ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eAssiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBloodlands \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single story. With a new afterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBloodlands \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virginia Holocaust Museum Shop \u0026 Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303447470114,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/6572270_271031f5-7c45-4e53-91be-8e3174f10d22.jpg?v=1706026160","url":"https:\/\/vaholocaust.myshopify.com\/products\/bloodlands-hardback","provider":"Virginia Holocaust Museum Shop \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}