Timothy Snyder
Timothy Synder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. The American historian specialises in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust.
His most recommended book is Bloodlands. “This book is about not just World War II but it is also about the Stalinist repression of the areas known as the borderlands, which Snyder has termed the ‘bloodlands.’ Snyder is looking at the deliberate mass murder of civilians in a particular zone of Europe between about 1930, at the start of the second Ukraine famine, and 1945. The zone is the territory that lies between central Poland and, roughly, the Russian border, covering eastern Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic republics.” Antony Beevor included Bloodlands in his best books on World War II.
Books by Timothy Snyder
“This book is about…the Stalinist repression of the areas known as the borderlands, which Snyder has termed the bloodlands. Snyder is looking at the deliberate mass murder of civilians in a particular zone of Europe between about 1930, at the start of the second Ukraine famine, and 1945.” Read more...
The best books on World War II
Antony Beevor, Military Historians & Veteran
Interviews with Timothy Snyder
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Interviews where books by Timothy Snyder were recommended
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