The Dictators

Resumen del libro

They presided over the most destructive regimes in history, murdered millions and fought the most barbarous war the world had seen. Yet countless Germans and Russians worshipped them and the values they stood for. How did Hitler and Stalin come to cast such a shadow over the twentieth century?

Richard Overy's acclaimed history is the first to examine both the two regimes and the people who lived under them: how dictatorship became possible, the use of terror, the camp systems, the bond between leader and followers, and, above all, how these men managed to draw the wide consent that enabled them to kill on such a colossal scale.

Biografía del autor

Richard Overy es profesor de Historia en la Universidad de Exeter y uno de los historiadores ingleses más reconocidos. Es miembro de la British Academy y de la European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Entre sus numerosos títulos destacan Interrogatorios, Por qué ganaron los Aliados, Al borde del abismo, Crónica del Tercer Reich o Dictadores, un excepcional paralelismo entre Hitler y Stalin, ganador en 2005 del Wolfson Prize. En su reciente y monumental Sangre y ruinas (Tusquets Editores, 2024), Overy ha escrito la obra más completa y renovadora sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial.