Stalin's War: A New History of World War II

'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon Sebag Montefiore
'An accomplished, fearless and enthusiastic "Myth-buster" ... McMeekin's book will make us re-evaluate the war and its consequences' Margaret MacMillan, Financial Times
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...