Richard Overy
A Dirty Conflict
World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West
By Laurence Rees
BBC Books 442pp £20 order from our bookshop
This book is designed to accompany the BBC series of the same title, broadcast this autumn, but like so many of the books that producer Laurence Rees has authored, it stands on its own as a thoughtful and thought-provoking introduction to many of the shadier deals of the Second World War, from the Nazi–Soviet Pact of August 1939 to the institutionalised distrust that marked the onset of the Cold War.
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