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STALINS WAR - SEAN MCMEEKIN KARTONIERT (TB)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL AND THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY
2022   'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch  The Times   
'Gripping  authoritative  accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon Sebag Montefiore 
'Impressive ... A new look at the conflict  which poses new questions and provides new and
often unexpected answers to the old ones' Serhii Plokhy  The Guardian    In this remarkable 
ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks a generational shift in our view of Stalin as an
ally in the Second World War. Stalin's only difference from Hitler  he argues  was that he was
a successful murderous predator. With Hitler dead and the Third Reich in ruins  Stalin created
an immense new Communist empire. Among his holdings were Czechoslovakia and Poland  the fates
of which had first set the West against the Nazis and  of course  China and North Korea  the
ramifications of which we still live with today.   Until Barbarossa wrought a public relations
miracle  turning him into a plucky ally of the West  Stalin had murdered millions  subverted
every norm of international behaviour  invaded as many countries as Hitler had  and taken great
swathes of territory he would continue to keep. In the larger sense the global conflict grew
out of not only German and Japanese aggression but Stalin's manoeuvrings  orchestrated to
provoke wars of attrition between the capitalist powers in Europe and in Asia. Throughout the
war Stalin chose to do only what would benefit his own regime  not even aiding in the effort
against Japan until the conflict's last weeks. Above all  Stalin's War uncovers the shocking
details of how the US government (to the detriment of itself and its other allies) fuelled
Stalin's war machine  blindly agreeing to every Soviet demand  right down to agents supplying
details of the atomic bomb.

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