Book Review: Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

Second, given the ongoing Instead, the attention is on the millions Ukrainian conflict, one must recognize that of humans deliberately exterminated throughout the historical roots of today’s conflict are intensely the bloodlands of Eastern Europe. [...] The military profession requires wisdom gained Beginning with Operation Barbarossa (1941–45), from the consequences of war and the conduct Nazi Germany conducted almost all the political of war. [...] The German “Final Solution” Secretary of War Elihu Root founded the US Army began in earnest at the end of July 1941 with War College “Not to promote war, but to preserve the industrial killings of humans, to the detriment peace.” Books like Bloodlands are important of Germany’s war effort. [...] reads for the profession of arms because, as philosopher George Santayana wrote, “Those The various genocides began in the 1930s as Stalin who cannot remember the past are condemned deliberately began eliminating the Ukrainian Kulaks to repeat it.” through genocidal starvation, executions, and other means. [...] drug addicts, Romanis, Jehovah’s Witnesses, political The views and opinions expressed in Parameters book reviews are those of the reviewers dissidents, Asians, Slavs, circumcised Muslims, and are not necessarily those of the Department of the Army, the US Army War College, or any other agency of the US government.