HHH Week 56 - Stalin's War
This week on History Happy Hour: For eighty years, the blame for igniting the most cataclysmic war in human history has been laid squarely at the feet of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and his henchmen in Japan. In a new book that Josef Stalin’s biographer Simon Sebag-Montefiore calls “bracingly revisionist,” Professor Sean McMeekin reconsiders this assumption and delves into the darker chapters of the stories we tell ourselves about the “good war.” Was it the leaders of Germany and Japan that drove the world inexorably toward war or did they have a partner in crime with Josef Stalin? Was Hitler the puppet master, or just the puppet? Should Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt have handled “Uncle Joe” differently? And who were the real winners and losers of World War II? Host-historians Rick Beyer and Chris Anderson explore these questions with Professor Sean McMeekin, author of "Stalin's War: A New History of WWII." You will be intrigued, surprised and terrified by the story our guest has to tell, Sunday at 4PM Eastern on History Happy Hour, the spot where history is always on tap.