cover image Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives

Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives

Alan Bullock. Vintage Books USA, $27.5 (1152pp) ISBN 978-0-679-72994-5

The lives of, arguably, the 20th century's most evil dictators unfold in tandem in this continually absorbing masterpiece of historical exposition and the biographer's art, a History Book Club main selection in cloth. (Sept.)