Timothy Snyder is an American historian and professor of history at Yale University. Specializing in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Holocaust, Snyder has written numerous award-winning books on these areas such as Nationalism, Marxism and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1998) and Sketches of a secret war: A Polish artist's mission to liberate Soviet Ukraine (2005). This article examines Snyder's book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, a history of Nazi and Soviet massacres in the lands between Berlin and Moscow, published in 2010. The book examines the mass murders carried out between Hitler and the Nazis and Stalin and the Soviets from 1933 to 1945. Specifically, the book focuses on the region of Eastern Europe that Snyder calls the "Bloodlands", in which he claims 14 million non-military civilians were murdered between the two regimes in 12 years. It defines the "Bloodlands" as a geographic region between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, commonly referred to as the Borderlands, consisting of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and of Ukraine. Bloodlands is a transnational narrative that connects several branches of historiography that generally remain distinct. It brings together the regimes of Hitler and Stalin to explain their interaction and how it affected the Bloodlands region. Snyder does this in order to systematically analyze the bloody history of the region to see how the two regimes enabled and inspired each other to understand the massacre of civilians that occurred from 1933 to 1945. This article will examine and use critiques of Bloodlands by Mark Roseman, James Kirchick, Christopher Browning, Hironki Kuroimy, Igor ...... middle of article ...... contextualizing the murders in the greater region allows a better understanding of what and why all these innocent people are dead. Writing the book in a roughly historical timeline beginning in 1933, Snyder jumps from one event to the next, connecting what happened in the past to the various mass murders that followed one another. It is with this knowledge that events and themes become understandable. By comparing Hitler and Stalin, Snyder shows how the two regimes collaborated, fueled each other, and justified each other for the brutal violence they perpetrated. Snyder helps draw attention to this region where 14 million people were killed as part of and away from the Western view of World War II and the Holocaust, to show that it was in made lands where the majority of innocent Jews and non-Jews were killed. in a barbaric way.