STALIN'S WAR

In this remarkable, ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks agenerational shift in our view of Stalin as an ally in the Second WorldWar. Stalin's only difference from Hitler, he argues, was that he was asuccessful murderous predator. With Hitler dead and the Third Reich inruins, Stalin created an immense new Communist empire. Among hisholdings were Czechoslovakia and Poland, the fates of which had firstset the West against the Nazis and, of course, China and North Korea,the ramifications of which we still live with today.