Red Famine
Stalin's War on Ukraine
$19.86
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
16 July 2018
Summary
A powerful history of one the most devastating episodes in the twentieth century, by ‘the leading historian of Soviet crimes’ (Sunday Times).
In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. Red Famine shows how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. The book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony. It includes accounts by survivors describing what human beings can do w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141978284 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141978287 |
| Author: | Anne Applebaum |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 16 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 388g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
Meticulously researched, blisteringly written
Meticulously researched, blisteringly written – Dominic Sandbrook * The Sunday Times (Books of the Year) *Magisterial and heartbreaking – Simon Sebag Montefiore * Evening Standard *Compelling in its detail and in its empathy – Nick Rennison * The Sunday Times *Her account will surely become the standard treatment of one of history’s great political atrocities – Timothy Snyder * Washington Post *An exhaustive, authoritative and eloquent book. She deals with questions that have hitherto lacked unequivocal answers – Donald Rayfield * Literary Review *
About The Author
Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum is the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, and Iron Curtain, which in 2013 won the Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature and the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature.
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