The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact With Stalin, 1939-1941 - Roger Moorhouse Audiobook

Written by Roger Moorhouse
Read by Derek Perkins
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

The NaziSoviet Pact stunned the world when it was announced the Second World War was launched under its auspices with the invasion and division of Poland and its eventual collapse led to the wars defining and deciding clash. It is a chapter too often skimmed over by popular histories of the Second World War and in The Devils Alliance Roger Moorhouse tells the full story of the pact between Hitler and Stalin for the first time from the motivation for its inception to its dramatic and abrupt end in 1941 as Germany declared war against its former partner Using firsthand and eyewitness testimony this is not just an account of the turbulent febrile politics underlying the unlikely collaboration between these two totalitarian regimes but of the human costs of the pact as millions of eastern Europeans fell victim to the nefarious ambitions of Hitler and Stalin

The Devils’ Alliance explores the causes and implications of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the creation and dissolution of which were crucial turning points in World War II. Forged by Joachim von Ribbentrop and his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, the nonaggression treaty briefly united the two powers in a brutally efficient collaboration. The Germans and Soviets quickly conquered and divided Central and Eastern Europe. Hundreds of thousands of people caught between Hitler and Stalin were expropriated, deported, or killed. Fortunately for the Allies, the partnership ultimately soured. Ironically, however, the powers’ exchange of material, blueprints, and technological expertise during the period of the pact made possible for a far more bloody and protracted war than would have otherwise been conceivable.