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|author=Roger Moorhouse
|title=The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941
|rating=3.5
|genre=History
|summary=Before WWII started, you didn't really have peace. Tensions had hardly settled down since the Great War, and there had been conflicts several times since, particularly in what would become the Theatre of War in eastern Europe. Nazi Germany and the Soviet regime were already at loggerheads, with the former supporting Japanese aggression in eastern Asia. They were bedfellows in evil, but very much on opposing sides. But with things stirring like never before under Hitler's expansionist activities, and despite numerous instances of this side talking to that potential enemy about the other, Nazi and Communist seemed to be firm foes. Both had publicly been denouncing the other – the Soviets deeming Nazis one side of the same corrupt, capitalist coin as us Brits, the Hitlerites already equating Communism with Jewry. But from under that period when the sides were ''pouring buckets of shit on each other's heads'' (sorry for the language, but it’s me quoting Stalin, believe it or not) came an extraordinary Pact – one of a handful in fact, that deemed Germany and Russia non-aggressors and collaborators, - just in time for them to share Poland between themselves. The initial document was short, but had an impact to affect 50 million people then, and many millions now – and yet it's hardly been the subject of a full look before now.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571897</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Melissa Keil
|summary= If someone tells you they're going to write a book, and it will be based on someone else's book, and it's based on a trip they'll do, which that other person also did, you might be left confused about ''why'' exactly they would want to do that. Surely more fun to do your own thing, rather than re-trace the steps of someone who's been there, done that? ''In America Travels with John Steinbeck'' is this book, based on John Steinbeck's earlier adventure but taking place 50 years later.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578735</amazonuk>
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