A deal with the devil
Jul 08, 2021
2 minutes
Stalin’s War
by Sean McMeekin
Allen Lane, 848 pages, £40
To most in the west, the Second World War is synonymous with Adolf Hitler. It was the German dictator whose invasion of Poland began the European war in 1939, and whose death in spring 1945 effectively ended it.
That rather myopic view has been increasingly challenged in recent years,
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