Stalin

World War II was fought on a scale unlike anything before or since in human history....

Train to Nowhere is a war memoir seen through the sardonic eyes of Anita Leslie, a funny and vivacious young woman who reports on her experiences with a dry humour....

The justification for the atomic bomb was simple: it would defeat Hitler and end the Second World War faster, saving lives. The reality was different....

Operation Barbarossa gave the Soviets common cause with the British, and subsequently the Americans. Getting supplies to the Soviets to help them resist the Germans became a strategic imperative, and Iran’s geography brought it to the front and center in the strategic supply effort....

Standing in history like a milestone marking the boundary between one era and the next, the Potsdam Conference brought together the leaders of the three major Allied powers....

Joseph Stalin rose from humble roots to become the greatest madman of the 20th century. His disregard for human life dwarfs Hitler's, as does the scale of his crimes....

Stalingrad has changed names. It's now called Volgograd and one of the largest cities in Russia. But we can't ignore the fact that for a significant time in history, it was called Stalingrad, named after Joseph Stalin. Let's explore the history of this city during the Second World War....

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

Even from evil, something can be learned. This book will show you how Stalin overcame all the difficulties he faced to become the leader of one of the most powerful countries in the world....

War in Korea! November 1950... Red China launches a full-scale attack to help North Korea crush South Korea and conquer the peninsula. Josef ...

On 1 October 1939, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty and soon to be the UK’s wartime leader, described Russia as ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’. The same can certainly be said of Stalin....

Infinite Stakes—picking up where Breaking Point left off—puts you both inside the cockpit as the pilots duel and at RAF headquarters with Winston Churchill on that fateful day and through the year that follows, when Britain must fight on alone....

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....

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....

The House of Twenty Thousand Books is the story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history....

In this book, listeners will gain an understanding of the Russian Revolution, the Civil War, World War I, the decline of the Russian Empire, and how these events shaped Russia's future....

A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World War....