Julia Wolbrook
In August 1939, two men who despised everything the other stood for shook hands and carved up Europe. For nearly two years, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia traded oil for steel, territory for silence, while the world waited for the inevitable betrayal.Deal with the Devil unravels the secret diplomacy, mounting paranoia, and fatal miscalculations that turned an alliance of convenience into history’s bloodiest war. Drawing on secret protocols, private conversations, and the words of the men who were in the room, this is the story of how Hitler talked himself into believing that destroying Russia was the only way to save his empire, and how that decision destroyed him instead.A gripping account of ambition, deception, and the seduction of one’s own propaganda, Deal with the Devil asks the question that still haunts the twentieth century: how do you make a bargain with a man you already know will break it?
