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by Alan Bullock,Baron Bullock (Author)
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  • Paperback: 1184 pages
  • Publisher: Fontana Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (6 Jul 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006863744
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006863748
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Alan Bullock's bestselling and monumental masterpiece, now in a revised Second Edition 'It is practically unprecedented to take two such monsters as Hitler and Stalin, who never met, and interweave their lives chronologically, chapter by chapter, often paragraph by paragraph, as Bullock has done!a triumph of organization, lucidity and perspective.' John Campbell, The Times 'Compulsive reading. The sweep is broad and the information concisely conveyed without any sign of pedantry!a titanic narrative history.' Zara Steiner, Financial Times 'An astonishing feat of organization, brilliantly illuminating the tragic history of the twentieth century.' Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 'If you knew nothing about the twentieth century and were allowed one book to bone up on it, this would have to be it.' Alex Campbell, Daily Mail


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Alan Bullock is the author of Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, The Life and Times of Ernest Bevin, The Liberal Tradition and The Humanist Tradition in the West. He is also the co-editor of The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thinkers, The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought and of the multi-volume Oxford History of Modern Europe series. In 1960, Lord Bullock became Founding Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford and was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford between 1969 and 1973. He was made a life peer in 1976.

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An authoritative work, 11 Jan 1999
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This is not a light book, but it flows extremely well and pulls off the trick of comparing and contrasting the lives of the two greatest tyrants of the twentieth century. Bullock builds on his earlier biography of Hitler and later works on the Cold War. Writing with the lay reader in mind, he has provided nearly 100 pages of bibliography, appendices and glossary.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Tells the story the way you want to hear it.., 2 Feb 2004
By M. Woodgate "Woodenhausen" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Lets cut to the chase, this book gets my highest possible recommendation. So similar, yet so different, arguably the two most negatively influential people of all time. Both brought forth unspeakable horrors but the way they did it and to whom they directed their wrath were very different. The scale unfortunately, was equally vast.
A paranoid and a megalomaniac, their lives intertwined, the only way to tell their stories is to intertwine them and thats what Bullock has done here.
A fascinating and eminantly readable account that will open your eyes to just what made these potent personalities tick.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant analysis, poor writing, 11 April 2005
By Jan Niemans (Schilde Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This is a brilliant analysis and a must read for anybody interested in the history of Europe in the 20th century. Too bad that the writing leaves to be desired, with poorly structured chapters and, at times, unnecessarily convoluted syntax.

I found it irritating and reader-unfriendly to read, say, 'Hitler and Stalin had three points in common', without enunciating what they were, but launching into the first point with lots of (interesting) asides, going on for -- sometimes -- pages, keeping you wondering what the second point might be, and then springing that upon the reader, who has to figure out that this is indeed the second point referred to many paragraphs ago, and still no sign of what the third point might be.

Also, too often, I read a sentence and didn't understand what it meant. So, I reread it, trying to figure out where the subject, the verb, and the object were, and mentally inserting missing commas and semi-colons. Sometimes that helped and sometimes I had to try again. Mostly that worked but sometimes I just gave up and moved on.

As I said: brilliant content but a good editor could improve its readability -- and get rid of 200 pages in the process.

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