Bloodlands (2010)

Timothy Snyder widens the frame to the lands between Berlin and Moscow, today's Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic states, where the Nazi and Soviet regimes killed an estimated 14 million noncombatants between 1933 and 1945. The murder of Europe's Jews sits here beside the 1933 famine in Ukraine, which Snyder puts at 3.3 million dead, and the result changes the map most Western readers carry in their heads. It is powerful as geography and as narrative. Some historians have faulted it for comparing more than it explains, and the 14 million figure counts only deaths from deliberate killing policies, so read it alongside a history of the Holocaust itself rather than instead of one.