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The Devils' Alliance (Hardcover)
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History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and
ideological rivals, the two mammoth and opposing totalitarian
regimes of World War II whose conflict would be the defining and
deciding clash of the war. Yet for nearly a third of the conflict's
entire timespan, Hitler and Stalin stood side by side as partners.
The Pact that they agreed had a profound--and bloody--impact on
Europe, and is fundamental to understanding the development and
denouement of the war.
In "The Devils' Alliance," acclaimed historian Roger Moorhouse
explores the causes and implications of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, an
unholy covenant whose creation and dissolution were crucial turning
points in World War II. Forged by the German foreign minister,
Joachim von Ribbentrop, and his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav
Molotov, the nonaggression treaty briefly united the two powers in
a brutally efficient collaboration. Together, the Germans and
Soviets quickly conquered and divided central and eastern
Europe--Poland, the Baltic States, Finland, and Bessarabia--and the
human cost was staggering: during the two years of the pact
hundreds of thousands of people in central and eastern Europe
caught between Hitler and Stalin were expropriated, deported, or
killed. Fortunately for the Allies, the partnership ultimately
soured, resulting in the surprise June 1941 German invasion of the
Soviet Union. Ironically, however, the powers' exchange of
materiel, blueprints, and technological expertise during the period
of the Pact made possible a far more bloody and protracted war than
would have otherwise been conceivable.
Combining comprehensive research with a gripping narrative, "The
Devils' Alliance" is the authoritative history of the Nazi-Soviet
Pact--and a portrait of the people whose lives were irrevocably
altered by Hitler and Stalin's nefarious collaboration.
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