Timothy Snyder is an American historian and professor of history at Yale University. Specializing in Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust, Snyder has written many award-winning books on these areas such as Nationalism, Marxism and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1998) and Sketches from a Secret War: The Mission of a Polish artist to liberate Soviet Ukraine (2005). This article reviews Snyder's book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, a history of Nazi and Soviet mass killings in the lands between Berlin and Moscow, published in 2010. The book examines the mass murder carried out between Hitler and the Nazis and Stalin and the Soviets from 1933 to 1945. Specifically the book focuses on the Eastern European region that Snyder calls the "Bloodlands" in which he states that 14 million non-military civilians were murdered between the two regimes over 12 years. He defines the “Bloodlands” as a geographic region between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, commonly called the borderlands, consisting of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine. Bloodlands is a transnational narrative that connects different branches of historiography that usually remain separate. It brings together the regimes of Hitler and Stalin to explain their interaction with each other and how it affected the “Bloodlands” region. Snyder does this to systematically analyze the bloody history of the region to see how the two regimes enabled and inspired each other to understand the mass extermination of civilians that occurred from 1933 to 1945. This article will examine and use reviews of Bloodlands by Mark Roseman, James Kirchick, Christopher Browning, Hironki Kuroimy, Igor ...... half of the article ...... contextualising the murders in the wider region allows for a better understanding of what and why all these innocent people died . Writing the book following a more or less historical timeline starting from 1933, Snyder proceeds from one event to another, connecting what had happened in the past to the various mass murders that occurred one after the other. It is with this awareness that events and themes become understandable. Comparing Hitler and Stalin together, Snyder shows how the two regimes collaborated, fed off, and justified each other for the brutal violence they pursued. Snyder helps focus attention on this region where 14 million people were killed in and out of the Western view of World War II and the Holocaust to demonstrate that these were in fact the lands where the majority of innocent Jews were killed and non-Jews. in barbaric ways.