Timothy Snyder?is a professor of history at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. The author of thirteen books, including the bestsellers?On Tyranny?and?Black Earth, his work has been translated into forty languages. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
"A brave and original history of mass killing in the twentieth
century."--Anne Applebaum, New York Review of Books
"A magisterial work.... Snyder's account in engaging,
encyclopedic."--Foreign Affairs
"A startling new interpretation of the period ... a stunning
book."--David Denby, New Yorker
"A superb and harrowing history."--Financial Times
"A superb work of scholarship, full of revealing detail, cleverly
compiled...and in places beautifully written.... Snyder does
justice to the horror of his subject through the power of
storytelling."--The Sunday Times (London)
"Genuinely shattering.... I have never seen a book like
it."--Istvan Deak, New Republic
"Gripping and comprehensive.... Mr. Snyder's book is revisionist
history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with
meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of
the best-known episodes in Europe's modern history."--Economist
"Snyder...compels us to look squarely at the full range of
destruction committed first by Stalin's regime and then by Hitler's
Reich.... A comprehensive and eloquent account."--New York Times
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"A gigantic achievement in modern history."--Rachel Maddow,
The Rachel Maddow Show
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