Hitler & Stalin vs Tyrants: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Hitler & Stalin Hitler & Stalin Alan Bullock · 1940 ★★★★☆ 3.8 1081 pages · ≈ 20 h 01 m · Challenging
“WHO, THEN, were these two men who were to leave such an indelible imprint on European history in the twentieth century?”

Forty years after his Hitler: A Study in Tyranny set a standard for scholarship of the Nazi era, Lord Alan Bullock gives readers a breathtakingly accomplished dual biography that places Adolf Hitler's origins,…

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Cover of Tyrants Tyrants David Wallechinsky · 2006 ★★★★☆ 3.8 368 pages · ≈ 6 h 49 m · Moderate

Today more than ever, international headlines are dominated by dispatches from the many dictatorships that still dot the globe. Although Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been deposed, North Korea's Kim Jong-il…

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