Timothy Snyder

37 books

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

Timothy Snyder

462 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history politics reflective slow-paced
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

524 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942 by Józef Czapski

Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942

Józef Czapski

480 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative medium-paced
Journey Into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag by Julius Margolin

Journey Into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag

Julius Margolin

648 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective medium-paced
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

128 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced
The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe by John Keane, Václav Havel

The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

John Keane, Václav Havel

228 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics dark informative tense slow-paced
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 by Timothy Snyder

The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999

Timothy Snyder

367 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Timothy Snyder

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine by Timothy Snyder

Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine

Timothy Snyder

384 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski

Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

Jan Karski

400 pages • first pub 1944 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative sad fast-paced