Product Description
The Wages of Destruction
Author: Adam Tooze
Format: Paperback
The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
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
About the Author
Adam Tooze is the author of the highly praised Crashed, The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction, all published by Allen Lane. He has been the recipient of the Wolfson Prize for History, the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Tooze has taught at Cambridge and Yale and is now Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University.
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