Bloodlands (2010)

Snyder examines the harrowing geographical corridor between central Poland and western Russia where Nazi and Soviet killing regimes converged between 1933 and 1945. Rather than focusing on distant capital cities, he grounds his history in the blood-soaked borderlands of Belarus, Ukraine, and the Baltic states where fourteen million civilians were murdered. It stands as an indispensable, devastating geopolitical autopsy of lands whose communities, cultures, and borders were completely obliterated.