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

Tooze, Adam

ISBN 10: 0713995661 / ISBN 13: 9780713995664

Published by Allen Lane, an Imprint of Penguin Books, London, 2006

About this Item

2006. xxvii, 800pp. B&W illustrations. "In this groundbreaking new history, Adam Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi war machine and its undoing. There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics?it was Hitler?s obsession and the reason the Nazis came to power in the first place." Light sunning to spine of unclipped dust jacket. The book is in excellent condition with no inscriptions. PLEASE NOTE: This is a heavy book and will cost extra to ship to non-UK customers.

Seller Inventory # hEconomics017

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wages of Destruction : The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
• Publisher: Allen Lane, an Imprint of Penguin Books, London
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0713995661
• ISBN 13: 9780713995664
• Binding: Red Hardback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics
  • History
  • Military

About this title

Synopsis

This chilling, fascinating new book is the first fully to get to grips with how Hitler's Nazi empire REALLY functioned. There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics - it was Hitler's obsession and the reason the Nazis came to power in the first place. The Second World War was fought, in Hitler's view, to create a European Empire strong enough to take on the United States - 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 Soviet Union - 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 past.

This is a major book by a major author and will provoke an enormous amount of controversy and debate.

About the Author

Adam Tooze is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge. He won the 2002 Philip Leverhulme Prize for modern history.