Nazis & Reds

A Chronology of the Prewar Years

De: Robert Sterling Herron

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

"The feeling of futility and impermanence, of hanging about in a draughty room and waiting for the guns to begin to shoot, which has haunted many of us during the past seven years, is peresent everywhere, and it grows stronger and stronger as the diary moves towards 1939. " -- George Orwell

Spanning the century between the rise of industrial capitalism and the final catastrophe of global war, The Protocols is a sweeping, documentary chronicle of authoritarianism’s ascent — and humanity’s struggle to resist it. Told through the words of those who lived it — soldiers and statesmen, journalists and dissidents, propagandists and victims — this multivolume series follows the arc of power as it shifts from factory floors and colonial frontiers to mass parties, concentration camps, and total war. Each volume assembles diaries, speeches, letters, news reports, and eyewitness accounts into a narrative mosaic that traces how ideology, technology, propaganda, and violence fused into the defining political forces of the modern age. Meticulously sourced yet deeply human, The Protocols is both a chronicle of the twentieth century’s darkest impulses and a warning about the fragility of democratic civilization.

The opening volume of The Protocols plunges readers into the turbulent decades that set the stage for the Second World
War. Nazis & Reds: A Chronology of the Prewar Years charts the collision of two revolutionary ideologies — fascism and communism — against the backdrop of a global order still reeling from the First World War.

From the rise of Hitler and the purge of his rivals to the Spanish Civil War, the Munich crisis, and the outbreak of conflict in 1939, this volume traces the collapse of the post-Versailles world and the steady drift toward catastrophe. Through the voices of those who witnessed it — diplomats and journalists, party officials and ordinary citizens — it reveals how democracies hesitated, how dictators seized the initiative, and how the ideals of the nineteenth century gave way to the totalitarian nightmares of the twentieth.

More than a history, Nazis & Reds is a forensic reconstruction of a world on the brink — a reminder that the past is not past, and that the forces which shaped it still shape us now.

What even is this?

This “book” is performed by cheap/free AI and is mostly footnotes read partially as math equations. Very basic grade 3-5 level facts mostly just wiki style platitudes about Germany. A waste of time. Also - there seems to be some insinuation of orange man is like mustache man. Also seems blissfully unaware of the utter catastrophe that was FDR’s economic policy. It’s a mix of boomer cringe and 2006 millennial book report - D+.