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And I feel compelled to do so because I'm afraid things can change here very fast.

So this is the first time that I'm writing about America. So I've spent the last 25 years writing, as you say, these books about how regimes change and about how political atrocities are committed. I'm a historian of Eastern and central Europe. I'm an American, but I'm not a historian of the United States.

I would call it an arrival, an arrival back into the United States. SNYDER: Well, you just called it a departure. It is a slim, almost pocket-sized work subtitled "Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century." Snyder writes out of concern about the rise of Donald Trump, and his lessons range from such personal instruction as stand out and establish a private life to more common political fare like listen for dangerous words and beware of paramilitaries. So the Yale historian's latest book called "On Tyranny" is a departure. Timothy Snyder has written some sprawling, compelling books about war, genocide and the descent into dictatorship in mid-20th century Europe.