On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century. Timothy Snyder

This book is an intellectual guide to confronting a threat that is actually closer than we think: tyranny.

Using examples from Nazi Germany, Stalin's USSR, communist Poland and Czechoslovakia, and Putin's Russia, Timothy Snyder reveals the formula for tyranny and the mechanism for its strengthening.

"On Tyranny" is a cautionary tale written during Donald Trump's first presidency and expanded upon after his attempt to storm the Capitol without admitting defeat. Knowing how subsequent events unfolded, readers will be convinced of the accuracy of the historian's predictions and will draw their own additional lessons from this book. The main ones are about each of us's own responsibility for overcoming real evil.