He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.

“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. This important call to arms and roadmap for resistance provides invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. This edition also includes On Tyranny, the bestselling essay collection that illustrates how various countries and governments have managed to protect against totalitarianism throughout history despite ever-present threats from many factions. Snyder cautions that unless we learn from these disruptive and disturbing occurrences, they will continue. Linking past and present, speaking only from notes, he guides the listener into the larger moral universe of On Tyranny. His latest book is The Road to Unfreedom (Tim Duggan Books April 2018). On Tyranny has been published in over a dozen countries and is a 1 New York Times Bestseller. With forays into history, he clarifies the causes of the Russian invasion and the meaning of Ukrainian resistance, and explains the war's connections to threats to democracy here in the United States and around the world. His book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Tim Duggan Books February 2017), has resonated with a worldwide audience. In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes eight hours of new content, Snyder combines the original essays from On Tyranny with twenty new lessons that answer the questions everyone is asking about this war. This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author.

The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times.

On tyranny by timothy snyder