Mazower - Hitlers empire: how the Nazis ruled ruled Europe

Mark Mazower

HITLERS EMPIRE

Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe

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First published by Allen Lane 2008
Published in Penguin Books 2009

Copyright Mark Mazower, 2008

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ISBN: 978-0-141-01192-9

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Mazower is the author of Salonica: City of Ghosts, which won both the Duff Cooper Prize and the Runciman Award, The Balkans: A Short History, which won the Wolfson Prize for History, Dark Continent: Europes Twentieth Century and Inside Hitlers Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 194144. He is Professor of History at Columbia University and has taught at Birkbeck College, London, Sussex University and Princeton. He lives in New York.

To my parents

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HITLERS EMPIRE

A masterpiece of the highest intelligence, full of humane insights into Europes darkest moments, rendered in elegant, memorable prose Fritz Stern

Written with exemplary clarity and a leaven of grim humour, the book enhances its authors status as the finest historian of twentieth-century Europe Jonathan Keates, The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year

Exposes the intellectual bankruptcy of the enterprise with forensic skill and wit Christopher Silvester, Daily Express

In this important book, Mark Mazower provides the best available survey of the Nazi empires precipitous rise and violent demise stimulating and provocative James J. Sheehan, The New York Times

A tireless, immensely valuable reassessment of the entire Nazi edifice and its breakdown Kirkus Reviews

Exposes the demonic madness and racial contradictions at the heart of Hitlers vision of a New Order in a new and chilling way Mary E. Daly, Irish Times, Books of the Year

A tour de force Frank McLynn, Herald

Absorbing and thought-provoking a considerable achievement Richard J. Evans, London Review of Books

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