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2) Stalin: the first in-depth biography based on explosive new documents from Russia's secret archives
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
xii, 607 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely gotten hold of: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin was a man for whom power was all, terror a useful weapon, and deceit a constant companion. As Radzinsky narrates the high drama of...
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English
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"With the fate of World War II in doubt and rumors of a Nazi assassination plot swirling, Franklin Roosevelt traveled in secret to Iran for a clandestine meeting that would change the course of history: the award-winning anchor of Special Report with Bret Baier reveals the gripping lost history of the Tehran Conference, where FDR, Churchill, and Stalin plotted D-Day and the Second World War's endgame."--
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Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy, The Nazi Conspiracy tells the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of the second World War. In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt wanted one thing: a face-to-face meeting with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This meeting of the...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
463 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the alliance formed at the end of World War II by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin to control the war in Europe and the Pacific, in the process shaping the political landscape of the world"--
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xv, 696 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This ambitious book tells the story of the great social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945--a period of almost continuous upheaval, with two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the Third Reich. Historian Gellately argues that these tragedies are inextricably linked and that to consider them as discrete events is to misunderstand their genesis and character. Central to the catastrophe, of course,...
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