Stalin

The bitter Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front was the turning point of World War II....

Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky’s own political oblivion....

In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove the leaders of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe....

Why do people hate Joseph Stalin as much as they hate Hitler? Listen on, and you'll know the answer soon! You want your child to learn about Stalin, because you want him/her to understand the thought process and why decisions were made that way....

More addictive and mind-blowing true tales from history, told by Giles Milton - one of today's most entertaining and accessible yet always intelligent and illuminating historians....

January 1945: As Hitler's Germany and Tojo's Japan collapse, General George Marshall dies unexpectedly days before the critical Yalta Conference. His successor as US Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur, flies halfway around the world to butt heads with Josef Stalin and change history....

December 1938. Moscow. Josef Stalin has lost some gold. He is not a happy man. He asks his henchman, Beria, to track it down....

Raoul Wallenberg lived at a time when one of the worst outrages of inhumanity was occurring: the Holocaust. As a Swedish businessman in Hungary, he bore witness to this tragedy firsthand.

In 1945, the Nazi war machine was finally crushed and cities and countries all over Europe were being liberated by the Allied Forces. Great shouts of joy could be heard. Young girls in Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, and other cities across Europe kissed young GIs and other liberating forces....

A transcendent history/memoir of one family’s always passionate, sometimes tragic connection to Russia....

This time it is the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler who insists on the theft of a Christian relic, believed to have been touched by Jesus Christ himself....

The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records, let alone keeping personal diaries....

Initially presiding over an oligarchic one-party regime that governed by plurality, Joseph Stalin became the de facto dictator of the Soviet Union. To eradicate those regarded as "enemies of the working class", Stalin instituted the "Great Purge" from 1934 to 1939....

In the warm predawn darkness of June 22, 1941, three million men waited along a front hundreds of miles long....

The vast expanses of southern Russia and the Ukraine provided the Eastern Front arena where the armies of Hitler and Stalin wrestled lethally for supremacy in 1943....

Book 4 in the Origins series “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” These words were spoken by the Manhattan Project’s scientific ...

In the warm predawn darkness of June 22, 1941, three million men waited along a front hundreds of miles long, stretching from the Baltic coast of Poland to the Balkans....

1941. Hitler unleashes Operation Barbarossa, taking the German forces to the outskirts of Moscow. Fearful of Lenin’s mausoleum falling into enemy hands, Stalin orders Lenin to be moved a 1,000 miles behind the Urals....

A debut novel of daring originality, The Yid guarantees that you will never think of Stalinist Russia, Shakespeare, theater, Yiddish, or history the same way again....

Separated by vast gulfs of political and philosophical divergence, the three Allied nations of World War II attempted to formulate a joint policy through a series of three conferences....