The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam To

Description: The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze In this groundbreaking new history, Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi war machine and its undoing. 16-page photo insert. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." —Financial TimesAn extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Toozes controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitlers surprisingly prescient vision--ultimately hindered by Germanys limited resources and his own racial ideology--was to create a German super-state to dominate Europe and compete with what he saw as Americas overwhelming power in a soon-to- be globalized world. The Wages of Destruction is a chilling work of originality and tremendous scholarship that set off debate in Germany and will fundamentally change the way in which history views the Second World War. Author Biography Adam Tooze is the author of The Deluge, winner of the Los Angeles Times book prize in history.. He is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University. He formerly taught at Yale University, where he was Director of International Security Studies, and at the University of Cambridge. He has worked in executive development with several major corporations and contributed to the National Intelligence Council. He has written and reviewed for Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, The Guardian, the Sunday Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Tageszeitung and Spiegel Magazine, New Left Review, and the London Review of Books. Review "One of the most important and original books to be published about the Third Reich in the past twenty years. A tour de force." -Niall Ferguson "Tooze has produced the most striking history of German strategy in the Second World War that we possess. This is an extraordinary achievement, and it places Adam Tooze in a very select company of historians indeed ... Tooze has given us a masterpiece which will be read, and admired; and it will stimulate others for a long time to come." -Nicholas Stargardt, History Today "It is among Adam Toozes many virtues, in "The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy," that he can write about such matters with authority, explaining the technicalities of bombers and battleships. Hovering over his chronicle are two extraordinary questions: how Germany managed to last as long as it did before the collapse of 1945 and why, under Hitler, it thought it could achieve supremacy at all." -Norman Stone, The Wall Street Journal "Virtually every page of his book contains something new and thought-provoking, making the whole an impressive achievement, in which original research has been combined with critical scrutiny of a vast literature that seems ripe for such a re-examination." -Michael Burleigh, The Sunday Times (London) "A magnificent demonstration of the explanatory power of economic history." -The Times (London) "Masterful . . . Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." -Financial Times Long Description An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Toozes controversial new book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitlers surprisingly prescient vision- ultimately hindered by Germanys limited resources and his own racial ideology-was to create a German super-state to dominate Europe and compete with what he saw as Americas 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. Review Quote One of the most important and original books to be published about the Third Reich in the past twenty years. A tour de force. Details ISBN0143113208 Author Adam Tooze Short Title WAGES OF DESTRUCTION Language English ISBN-10 0143113208 ISBN-13 9780143113201 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 2008 Subtitle The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy DOI 10.1604/9780143113201 Place of Publication New York, NY Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2008-02-26 NZ Release Date 2008-02-26 US Release Date 2008-02-26 UK Release Date 2008-02-26 Pages 848 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Publication Date 2008-02-26 Imprint Penguin USA DEWEY 330.943086 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:141682923;

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