The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
by Tooze, Adam
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London: Penguin, 2007. 1st ed. thus. As New. 8vo.. stiff wrappers xxvii + 800pp., b/w plates, notes, appendix, index, ÔWW2 was fought, in Hitler's view, to create a European Empire strong enough to take on the US; a last chance for Europe to dig itself in before being swept away by the USA's ever greater power. But, as "The Wages of Destruction" makes clear, Hitler was never remotely strong enough to beat either Britain or the USSR - and never even had a serious plan as to how he might defeat the USA. It took years of fighting and the deaths of millions of people to destroy the Third Reich, but effectively World War II in Europe was fought in pursuit of a fantasy: the years in which Western Europe could settle the world's fate were, by 1939, long pastÕ PublisherÕs mark on bottom edge o/w a nice copy
Synopsis
An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial new book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler's surprisingly prescient vision- ultimately hindered by Germany's limited resources and his own racial ideology-was to create a German super-state to dominate Europe and compete with what he saw as America's overwhelming power in a soon-to- be globalized world. The Wages of Destruction is a chilling work of originality and tremendous scholarship that is already setting off debate in Germany and will fundamentally change the way in which history views the Second World War.
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- Title
- The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
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- Tooze, Adam
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- Edition
- 1st ed. thus
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 8vo.
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