A review by bookiemonster82
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I long for fast paced, informative, and unbiased (mostly by veiwing past events based on todays understanding/politics) accounts of history. Its very difficult to get that. Most are over saturated by a given authors personal view based on their current day-isms. Blood Lands was very informative, (at times to the detriment of pace) and did an admirable job of setting the scene on both sides of the conflict as understood by the players. There were quite a few instances of Monday morning quaterbacking, but not enough to prevent me from enjoying the read.