Title: Hoped for a fascinating story - terribly disappointed
Product review: As I read about the WW II Russian front and Stalin's actions in other books during the past year, I decided that a good biography on Stalin would be a fascinating, interesting, read. After reading that the Washington Post rated Service's book one of the "Best Books of the Year for 2005" and that it was a "Winner in Biography" in the Independent Publishers Book Awards for 2005, I thought this would be the one. Instead, I was disappointed to read a book as uninteresting as the history books that I studied in high school and college; books that turned me against history for the next 30 years. It was well-researched and full of details but so are encyclopedias.I have read quite a few great biographies on people as diverse as Huey Long and Charles Darwin; but, to me, "Stalin, a Biography" was a waste of time.
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