Post by André Fiset

J’ai reçu ma copie: BLOODLANDS: EUROPE BETWEEN HITLER AND STALIN de Timothy Snyder (éditeur: Basic Books). Dans le quotidien NEW YORK TIMES, on peut lire le commentaire suivant quant à cet ouvrage : « For most Americans, who remember World War II as beginning in 1941, it is necessary to recall that Europe had succumbed to an infatuation with violence long before the United States entered the conflict. Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale, compels us to look squarely at the full range of destruction committed first by Stalin’s regime and then by Hitler’s Reich. Each fashioned a terrifying orgy of deliberate mass killing. In “Bloodlands,” Snyder concentrates on the area between Germany and Russia (Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic region and Belarus) that became the site of horrific experiments to create competing utopias based on class or race war.»