Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II - Sean McMeekin Audiobook
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A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin - not Hitler - was the animating force of World War II in this major new history.
World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia - and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did not inherit any of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to Joseph Stalin. The Second World War was not Hitler’s war; it was Stalin’s war.
Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet, European, and US archives, Stalin’s War revolutionizes our understanding of this global conflict by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler’s genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, did the Pacific war of 1941-1945 fulfill Stalin’s goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition between Japan and the “Anglo-Saxon” capitalist powers he viewed as his ultimate adversary.
McMeekin also reveals the extent to which Soviet Communism was rescued by the US and Britain’s self-defeating strategic moves, beginning with Lend-Lease aid, as American and British supply boards agreed almost blindly to every Soviet demand. Stalin’s war machine, McMeekin shows, was substantially reliant on American material, from warplanes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, motorcycles, fuel, ammunition, and explosives, to industrial inputs and technology transfer, to the foodstuffs which fed the Red Army.
This unreciprocated American generosity gave Stalin’s armies the mobile striking power to conquer most of Eurasia, from Berlin to Beijing, for Communism.
A groundbreaking reassessment of the Second World War, Stalin’s War is an essential book for anyone looking to understand the current world order.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 5/5
May 5th, 2021
All the disagreement by pro historians makes history buffs happy. We all have our favourites. Personally, I luv Beevor. I was 14 years old when I got my first taste of Beevor & since then I crave Beevor all the time. I’ll do anything for more Beevor!
May 5th, 2021
Mr. McMeekin appears to be a master in “reassessment” “re-conception” “retelling” “reshaping” , etc. all kind of histories. A master of all the “re”s. Quite a feat!
May 5th, 2021
Actually Mr McMeekin “reshaping” is nothing new for us, people of Eastern Europe. We have known it all since ages. But it may be an eye opener for the Westerners, who lived long enough under a shadow of carefully crafted Soviet/Russian propaganda to believe than even Mr Gorbachev was a decent guy.
May 6th, 2021
What did his secretary say to Joseph when he didn’t want to go give a speech? Quit Stalin!
May 7th, 2021
Hello Guest :),
Thank you so much for some good new nonfictions!! All 128 kbps!! WOW!!
May 9th, 2021
“Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it.” - I believe the saying goes.
Same applies to those who keep rewriting the history with “new” facts.
Many Germans now believe WWII was started by the Soviet Union. And many young Japanese believe that it was Soviet Union that dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
May 16th, 2021
This book is trashed here:
Stalin’s War: Disorted history of a complex second World War
Book review: Sean McMeekin dubiously contends war was more Stalin’s than Hitler’s
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/stalin-s-war-disorted-history-of-a-complex-second-world-war-1.4551057
https://archive.is/jZ5Us
June 13th, 2021
@MagicRunes and ALL Americans think America won the war on their own!
I laughed out loud at work a couple of weeks ago listening to an American who went to Canada to train to be an airman in 1943 “right at the start of the war”!
January 21st, 2022
This book reminds me of Pat Buchanan’s “The Unnecessary War”. They both lament and wail about how the Nazis and the West should have joined Hitler’s crusade against Bolshevism. You just can’t make this stuff up
April 28th, 2022
Thank you
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