Summer Reading Review, part 3: Hard Work but Worth It

Since I had so much fun on vacation with family, friends, Harry Potter World, and Walt'z Fish Shak, I am still making my way through my summer reading regimen.

The latest has been most worthwhile even though it is challenging work. 

Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder is a dense, 400 page history on Europe between Hitler and Stalin. Snyder provides detail in the history and mass slaughter of the peoples in the Ukraine, Poland, the Baltic States and other areas as Stalin and Hitler moved into power and the build-up to World War II began. Most stunning are the facts regarding Stalin's policies of starving regions and populations to death in order to subdue areas he found to be strategic for his interests. He makes Hitler's early years look almost humane by comparison.

Second most fascinating is the chronicling of Hitler's failures in invading Russia and the severe toll that catastrophe took on   >>>>>   Read Entire Post