Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin: Library Edition Review This will be one of the most important books of the twenty-first century. --Bob Silvers, editor of the New York Review of Books  About the Author TIMOTHY SNYDER is professor of history at Yale University. He has held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, Warsaw, and at Harvard, and he won the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association for his book The Reconstruction of Nations. His book Sketches from a Secret War was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum by the First Congress of Foreign Researchers of Poland. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.