 was written by the English historian Norman Davies, best known for his books on Poland.Davies argues although the war was over for 60 years that a number of misconceptions about the war are still common and then sets out to correct them.Two of his main claims are that contrary to popular belief in the West, the dominant part of the conflict took place in Eastern Europe between the two totalitarian systems of the century, communism and Nazism; and that Stalin's USSR was as bad as Hitler's Germany.