Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

In the American perspective, the Second World War is often referred to as "The Good War." However, prior to its commencement, Josef Stalin, an ally of the United States during the conflict, had perpetrated the deaths of countless millions of his own country's inhabitants—an atrocity that persisted even during and after the war. In parallel, Adolf Hitler's regime orchestrated the genocide of six million Jews and a comparable number of other Europeans. When the war ultimately concluded, the locations of mass killings by both German and Soviet forces were concealed behind the veil of the Iron Curtain, leaving the tragic history of large-scale atrocities shrouded in obscurity.