cover image Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin, and the Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939-1941

Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin, and the Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939-1941

Anthony Read. W. W. Norton & Company, $35 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-393-30651-4

Writing of one of the most unlikely alliances in history, the authors describe the ``monstrous chess game'' the two dictators played, using whole countries as pieces, while preparing for a battlefield confrontation that would rival anything before or since in bloodshed. PW declared, ``There is new material throughout this majestic narrative.'' Photos. (Oct.)