NEW HAVEN - When Timothy Snyder's book "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin" was published in 2010, it quickly established its author as one of the leading historians of his generation, a scholar who combined formidable linguistic skills - he reads or speaks 11 languages - with an elegant literary style, white-hot moral passion and a willingness to start arguments about some of the most fraught questions of the recent past.
New York Times: Timothy Snyder’s ‘Black Earth’ puts Holocaust, and himself, in spotlight
Timothy Snyder, author of \u201cBlack Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning\u201d.
