16 best-selling history books like Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al…

"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

If you liked the history plot in Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Modern Library Chronicles) by Jan Tomasz Gross, Stephen Kotkin

1. Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Modern Library Chronicles)

By: Jan Tomasz Gross , Stephen Kotkin

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, com… read more

Similar categories in Jan Tomasz Gross's Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Modern Library Chronicles) book and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. The Fall of Berlin 1945

By: Antony Beevor

4.29

Format: 490 pages, Paperback

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945.… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Sé practico: regala un ataúd"

-Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945

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3. Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe

By: Mark Mazower

4.19

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

Profiles the Reich's pre-World War II plans for transforming Eastern Europe, describing the conside… read more

Similar categories in Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe book and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

  • history
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • holocaust
Cover of Thinking the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder, Tony Judt

4. Thinking the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder , Tony Judt

4.26

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild ride through … read more

Similar categories in Timothy Snyder's Thinking the Twentieth Century book and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Zkrátka a dobře – lidem, kteří mluví o všem, hrozí ztráta schopnosti mluvit o něčem."

-Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century

"stejně jako mnoho dalších přeživších se v této době cítili bezpečněji v poraženém Německu než v osvobozených zemích na východě."

-Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century

"Ztráta víry samozřejmě zdaleka není tak atraktivní jako víra; i když odklon od ní může být racionální, ztrácíte tím víc, než získáváte."

-Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century

"dějiny nacismu – a vůbec všech forem totalitarismu – nelze plně pochopit, pokud je omezíme na vyprávění o zlých lidech, kteří se vědomě a záměrně dopouštějí zločinů s cílem páchat zlo"

-Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century

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5. Gulag

By: Anne Applebaum

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

6. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • germany
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
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7. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By: Christopher Clark

3.79

Format: None pages,

On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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8. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin book and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • germany
  • war
  • ukraine
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • holocaust
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Cover of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt

9. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

By: Tony Judt

4.37

Format: 933 pages, Paperback

Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of th… read more

Similar categories in Tony Judt's Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 book and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men."

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

"Far from addressing the Soviet nationalities question, the Afghan adventure had, as was by now all too clear, exacerbated it. If the USSR faced an intractable set of national minorities, this was in …"

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

"The imposition of a Russian rather than a German solution cut Europe’s vulnerable eastern half away from the body of the continent. At the time this was not a matter of great concern to western Europ…"

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

"Maastricht had three significant side-effects. One of them was the unforeseen boost it gave to NATO. Under the restrictive terms of the Treaty it was clear (as the French at least had intended) that …"

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

10. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933

By: Anne Applebaum

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933 book and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
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11. The First World War

By: John Keegan

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly end… read more

Similar categories in John Keegan's The First World War book and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

  • european history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

12. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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13. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

By: Max Hastings

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly globa… read more

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14. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

By: Anne Applebaum

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Appleb… read more

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15. The Third Reich: A New History

By: Michael Burleigh

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

A Major Study of One of the Twentieth Century's Darkest Periods Until now there has been no up-to-d… read more

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16. The Guns of August

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

4.18

Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition

The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."

-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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17. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 470 pages, ebook

Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"Navarre asserted, “We have such powerful forces and so strong a defence system that Dien Bien Phu is an impregnable fortress!"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"

-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

Cover of Our Enemies Will Vanish by Yaroslav Trofimov

18. Our Enemies Will Vanish

By: Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy

19. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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20. Magenta

By: John Payton Foden

4.27

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Magenta is a harrowing journey into war-torn Sarajevo, and into the blackest reaches of the human c… read more

Similar categories in John Payton Foden's Magenta book and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

  • historical
  • war
  • european history
"There was a story out there, in a scary place, and she had to bear witness."

-John Payton Foden, Magenta

"She polished her words like smooth river rocks lying perfectly organized in brilliant rainbow shades under crystal clear, slow moving water."

-John Payton Foden, Magenta

"Stefan, please, get to work.  Take a picture of this. You want a photo? Of this? War in all its ugliness.  A Pulitzer Prize awaits. You want me to document a war crime? Your war crime? Yes.  I do. Yo…"

-John Payton Foden, Magenta

"Stefan with his camera at the ready photographed a church and mosque and synagogue reduced to a cross and a crescent and a star, solitary monuments to what people once believed.  They silently passed…"

-John Payton Foden, Magenta

Cover of Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski

21. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

By: Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more

Similar categories in Jacob Mikanowski's Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land book and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

  • history
  • politics
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • european history

7 Best historical books like Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Transform Your Habits

The Fall of Berlin 1945

Antony Beevor

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Gulag

Anne Applebaum

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

Antony Beevor

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

4.38

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16 best-selling history books like Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

Transform Your Habits

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

Transform Your Habits

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

Transform Your Habits

1776

David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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