In this week’s London Review of Books, the first four letters are devoted to discussing Richard J Evans’s damning review of the American historian Timothy Snyder’s recent book, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. In one of the missives, the distinguished historian of Poland, Norman Davies, writes that Evans’s review had treated Snyder as “an egregious interloper fit only to be chased from the parish”, while in another letter a leading historian of the eastern European Jewry, Anthony Polonsky, argues that “Evans attacks Snyder for overemphasising the sufferings of the Poles at the hands of both Stalin and Hitler, but Snyder’s figures for Polish casualties are lower than those usually cited, and they reflect the most recent research.”
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