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  • Published: 27 May 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141011929
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 784
  • RRP: $45.00

Hitler's Empire

Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe




The first book to view the Nazi empire as a whole

Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial legacy of those such as the British, the Third Reich cast its shadow from the Channel Islands to the Caucasus and ruled hundreds of millions. Yet, as Mark Mazower's groundbreaking new account shows, it was an empire built on an illusion.

From Hitler's plans for vast motorways crossing an ethnically cleansed Russian steppe, to dreams of a German super-economy rivalling America's, Mazower reveals the lethal fusion of mass murder, modern managerialism and colossal incompetence that underpinned the Nazi New Order. Ultimately Hitler's empire ended up consuming its own, leaving destruction in its wake and finishing not just with the downfall of Germany, but an entire continent.

  • Published: 27 May 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141011929
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 784
  • RRP: $45.00

About the author

Mark Mazower

Mark Mazower is Reader in History at the University of Sussex. He is the author of the prize-winning Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-1944 (co-winner of the Fraenkel Prize and the Longman/History Today Book of the Year). He writes and broadcasts regularly on current developments in the Balkans.

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