Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives

London England: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Paperback Hitler and Stalin. light shelf wear to cover. Here, from one of Britain's most distinguished living historians, is the book which distils a lifetime's thinking: his monumental parallel biography of the two greatest dictators of the twentiethy century. One of the tasks Bullock has performed in this book is to take account of all the information that has emerged since 1952 and syntheszie it into a masterly new portrait. But with this he has now brilliantly interwoven another biography entirely, of the man who was first Hitler's wary collaborator and then his most deadly enemy - Joseph Stalin. The result is a devastating, gripping and entirely new book. Bullock builds a massive narrative by alternating chapter on Hitler and Stalin, showing how and why their careers developed as they did, what motivated them, how they were similar and how different. No more fruitful or illuminating approach to the life of either has yet been written. And no author has come closer to understanding them: Bullock reveals here the reasons for his belief that the key to the character of each of them is the same. It is an achievement only the most mature and judicious historian could have attained. Bullock says in his introduction, 'It is the public roles of Hitler and Stalin, not their private lives, for which they are remembered. 'This book is also therefore an account of many of the crucial events of the formative years of the twentieth century. With the reunificiation of Germany and the democratizing of Eastern Europe, the world Hitler and Stalin created is coming to an end. This is the moment from which Alan Bullock looks back at who they were, and what they did. Illustrated. 1189 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Paperback Edition. 1991.