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Books like Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
The best books like Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder is about mass killing, totalitarianism, state violence. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond · Science
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond's attempt to answer a question posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician named Yali: why did Europeans end up with so much cargo — wealth, technology, power — while other peoples had comparatively little?
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Homo Deus picks up where Sapiens left off, but turns to face the other direction.
A kindred history read.
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- Gulag: A History
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Anne Applebaum · History
Anne Applebaum's Gulag is the first comprehensive English-language history of the Soviet forced labor camp system, drawing on KGB archives opened briefly after 1991, survivor memoirs, and interviews with former prisoners and guards.
Shares totalitarianism and memory with Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.
Read the summary → - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer · History
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is William Shirer's comprehensive account of Nazi Germany from the early career of Adolf Hitler through the defeat of the Reich in 1945.
Shares totalitarianism and world war ii with Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin.
Read the summary → - Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Ben Macintyre · History
Eddie Chapman was a safecracker, con man, and professional criminal who became Britain's most remarkable double agent during World War II.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956
Anne Applebaum · History
Iron Curtain is Anne Applebaum's account of how the Soviet Union destroyed civil society and imposed communist rule across Eastern Europe between 1944 and 1956.
Both dig into totalitarianism.
Read the summary → - Lost in Shangri-La
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Mitchell Zuckoff · History
Lost in Shangri-La tells the story of a 1945 military plane crash in the Baliem Valley of New Guinea — a hidden highland region so remote and unknown to the outside world that the press called it Shangri-La.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - Natural Born Heroes
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Christopher McDougall · History
Natural Born Heroes is Christopher McDougall's follow-up to Born to Run, and it attempts something equally ambitious: to argue that heroism is a trainable physical and psychological skill, and that the human body contains natural capacities for endurance, power, and resilience that modern life has systematically atrophied.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
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Ben Macintyre · History
In 1943, British intelligence planted a dead man on a Spanish beach carrying fabricated documents designed to convince the Germans that the Allied invasion of southern Europe would target Greece and Sardinia rather than Sicily.
Both dig into world war ii.
Read the summary → - Pale Rider
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Laura Spinney · History
Pale Rider is Laura Spinney's account of the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic, with a distinctive emphasis on its global dimensions and on why the event so largely disappeared from collective memory.
Both dig into memory.
Read the summary → - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe · History
Say Nothing opens with a scene that sets its register precisely: Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten, is dragged from her Belfast flat by a gang of masked strangers in December 1972 and never seen alive again.
Both dig into memory.
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Books like Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin: quick answers
What are the best books like Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin?
The best books like Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, such as mass killing, totalitarianism, state violence.
What should I read after Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin?
A natural next read after Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin is Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. A kindred history read. Other strong choices are Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum.
What books are similar to Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder?
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin centers on mass killing, totalitarianism, state violence. Books with a similar feel include Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
