This book provides a justification for the Oxford classical system;
for its author read classical Mods and Greats before he went over
to modern history (securing first classes in all three). He uses
the wisdom he learnt from Socrates and Thucydides to explain the
two monstrous subjects of his dual biography: looked at from an
almost Olympian detachment, neither Hitler nor Stalin seems quite
as terrifying as both did to their victims when they were
terrorizing their own and fighting each others' subjects in the
1930s and early 1940s. Lord Bullock has a thorough mastery over
politics and warfare as well as history, and strong and broad human
sympathies as well; this is a most impressive study in meglomania
and a memorably good book. (Kirkus UK)
“It is practically unprecedented to take two such monsters as Hitler and Stalin, who never met, and interweave their lives chronologically, chapter by chapter, often paragraph by paragraph, as Bullock has done. It sounds like a recipe for confusion, irritation and indigestion. In fact, it works brilliantly. the book is a triumph of organisation, lucidity and perspective.”
JOHN CAMBELL, 'The Times'
“A magnificent piece of historical writing which, despite its massive size, makes for compulsive reading. The sweep is broad and the information concisely conveyed without any sign of pedantry. The judgements are sane and balanced…The grasp of the biographical material is matched by a multitude of interpretations which are the mark of a master historian.”
ZARA STEINER, 'Financial Times'
“A titanic narrative history…Bullock is a master-builder who constructs his edifice beautifully, underpinning the narrative mass with analytical supports to prevent the story collapsing into detail and burying the reader, Yet he can slow the momentum for a vivid vignette or apt quotation.”
DAVID REYNOLDS, 'Independent on Sunday'
“A magnetic chronicling…which, by dint of its distillation of a vast amount of matter, and by virtue of its author’s consummate powers of analysis and narrative, becomes a standard work from the very instant of publication.”
MARTIN FAGG, 'TES'
“Lord Bullock has carried out to perfection an artistic revenge on Public Enemies Numbers One and Two. This enormous book is a fitting tombstone to their world.”
ANDREW ROBERTS, 'Spectator'
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