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

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Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy provides a groundbreaking new account of how Hitler established himself in power, mobilized for war - and led his country to annihilation. Was the tragedy of the Second World War determined by Nazi Germany's terrifying power, or by its fatal weakness? This gripping and universally-acclaimed new history tells the real story of the cost of Hitler's plans for world domination - and will overturn everything you thought you knew about the Third Reich. A tour de force . (Niall Ferguson). Masterful ...smashes a gallery of preconceptions . ( The 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 ). A remarkable and gripping revision of the history of Nazi Germany . ( New Statesman Books of the Year). A powerful and provocative reassessment of the whole story . (Richard Overy). Adam Tooze is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge. He won the 2002 Philip Leverhulme Prize for modern history as well as the Longman-History Today Book of the Year for Wages of Destruction .

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Adam Tooze's "The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy" provides a groundbreaking new account of how Hitler established himself in power, mobilized for war - and led his country to annihilation. Was the tragedy of the Second World War determined by Nazi Germany's terrifying power, or by its fatal weakness? This gripping and universally-acclaimed new history tells the real story of the cost of Hitler's plans for world domination - and will overturn everything you thought you knew about the Third Reich. "A tour de force". (Niall Ferguson). "Masterful ...smashes a gallery of preconceptions". ("The 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"). "A remarkable and gripping revision of the history of Nazi Germany". ("New Statesman" Books of the Year). "A powerful and provocative reassessment of the whole story". (Richard Overy). Adam Tooze is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge. He won the 2002 Philip Leverhulme Prize for modern history as well as the Longman-History Today Book of the Year for "Wages of Destruction".

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 832
Edition: 1st Penguin Edition
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 02 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 0141003480
ISBN 13: 9780141003481

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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 Tooze's 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
aOne of the most important and original books to be published about the Third Reich in the past twenty years. A tour de force.a
aNiall 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.
aNicholas Stargardt, History Today
aIt is among Adam Tooze's 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.a
aNorman 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.
aMichael Burleigh, The Sunday Times (London)
aA magnificent demonstration of the explanatory power of economic history.a
a The Times (London)
aMasterful . . . Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism.a
a Financial Times
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 Tooze's 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,

Author Bio

Adam Tooze is Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale University. He taught for many years at the University of Cambridge. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy was universally acclaimed as one of the most important books written on the Third Reich. It was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and won both the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize and the Wolfson Prize for History.