Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder. Penguin Pres, $35 (406p) ISBN 978-1-59420-323-7
In this scintillating series of conversations undertaken as he was dying of Lou Gehrig’s Disease, British-American historian Judt (The Memory Chalet) and his interlocutor Snyder (Bloodlands) survey the triumphs and barbarities of the past century...
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Timothy Snyder, Author . Basic $27.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-465-00237-5
Part of the family that ruled much of central Europe since 1273, Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895–1949) came of age during the last 23 years of the dynasty’s rule. Von Habsburg lived a nomadic and tragic life; he was a bisexual and a political
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Timothy Snyder. Crown/Duggan, $30 (480p) ISBN 978-1-101-90345-2
This brilliant book—effectively a companion volume to Snyder’s critically acclaimed 2010 work, Bloodlands—focuses on the Jewish victims of the grotesque policies of the Nazis and their shifting allies in the lands contested by Germans, Soviets,...
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Timothy Snyder, read by Mark Bramhall. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 13 CDs, 16.5 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-1-101-92605-5
Veteran voice actor Bramhall gives a sturdy and compelling reading of Snyder’s riveting examination of the rise and implementation of the Holocaust. The book offers a detailed analysis of how the collapse—rather than the excess—of Central and...
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Timothy Snyder. Crown/Duggan, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-57446-0
Yale history professor Snyder (On Tyranny) buttresses his denunciation of Donald Trump as a nascent authoritarian with a fascinating, detailed exploration of how recent events in Russia presaged Trump’s administration. Beginning by discussing the...
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Timothy Snyder. Crown, $12 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-593-23889-9
Historian Snyder (The Road to Unfreedom) frames this searing critique of the American health-care system around his own recent medical emergency. After a series of medical mistakes related to an appendectomy, Snyder nearly died before undergoing...
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Timothy Snyder and Nora Krug. Ten Speed, $24 (128p) ISBN 978-1-984860-39-2
NBCC Award–winning artist Krug (Belonging) adapts Snyder’s 2017 bestseller into a graphic edition, with intricate, eerie collages that interpret historically informed “lessons” offered in response to the implicit “What can I do?” that followed the...
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Timothy Snyder. Crown, $32 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-72872-7
Yale historian Snyder follows up On Tyranny, his grim but heady look at the ways freedom can get chipped away, with a more soporific rumination on how freedom can be maintained. Snyder contends that in today’s world freedom is wrongly conceived as a
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