The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia
- ISBN-10
- 0141024364
- ISBN-13
- 9780141024363
- Series
- The Dictators
- Category
- Germany
- Pages
- 848
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Author
- R. J. Overy
Description
An absorbing study of Hitler and Stalin, ranging from their private and public selves, their ascents to power and consolidation of absolute rule, to their waging of massive war and creation of far- flung empires of camps and prisons.
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