SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL AND THE GILDER LEHRMAN
PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022 'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a
superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'Gripping,
authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon
Sebag Montefiore 'Impressive ... A new look at the conflict, which
poses new questions and provides new and often unexpected answers
to the old ones' Serhii Plokhy, The Guardian In this remarkable,
ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks a generational shift
in our view of Stalin as an ally in the Second World War. Stalin's
only difference from Hitler, he argues, was that he was a
successful murderous predator. With Hitler dead and the Third Reich
in ruins, Stalin created an immense new Communist empire. Among his
holdings were Czechoslovakia and Poland, the fates of which had
first set the West against the Nazis and, of course, China and
North Korea, the ramifications of which we still live with today.
Until Barbarossa wrought a public relations miracle, turning him
into a plucky ally of the West, Stalin had murdered millions,
subverted every norm of international behaviour, invaded as many
countries as Hitler had, and taken great swathes of territory he
would continue to keep. In the larger sense the global conflict
grew out of not only German and Japanese aggression but Stalin's
manoeuvrings, orchestrated to provoke wars of attrition between the
capitalist powers in Europe and in Asia. Throughout the war Stalin
chose to do only what would benefit his own regime, not even aiding
in the effort against Japan until the conflict's last weeks. Above
all, Stalin's War uncovers the shocking details of how the US
government (to the detriment of itself and its other allies)
fuelled Stalin's war machine, blindly agreeing to every Soviet
demand, right down to agents supplying details of the atomic bomb.
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