The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy - Hardcover

Tooze, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670038261 ISBN 13: 9780670038268

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2007

Synopsis

An accessible portrait of the Nazi war machine and its downfall traces the pivotal role of economics in every aspect of Nazi power, Hitler's views about the potential of a European force strong enough to take on America, and the shortcomings of Hitler's armies.

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Review:

`A remarkable and gripping revision of the history of Nazi Germany' -- New Statesman, Books of the Year

`Masterful ... smashes a gallery of preconceptions'
-- Financial Times

`This book will change the way we look at Nazi history ... nothing less than a masterpiece. Rejoice, rejoice, for a great historian is born' -- Sunday Telegraph

'Adam Tooze's Wages of Destruction is a hugely impressive narrative of the making and breaking of the Nazi economy. The drama and recklessness with which the Germans managed their economic policy are powerfully conveyed'
-- David Gilmour, Spectator Books of the Year

`This is a great book - one of the most important to be written about the Third Reich in years' -- The Times Higher Education Supplement

From the Publisher:

Winner of the 2007 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0670038261
• ISBN 13: 9780670038268
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 799