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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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