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Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (Allen Lane History) by: Mark Mazower List Price: £30.00 City Travel Guides Price: £15.71 You Save: £14.29 (48%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780713996814 ISBN: 0713996811 Label: Allen Lane Manufacturer: Allen Lane Number Of Pages: 768 Publication Date: June 05, 2008 Publisher: Allen Lane Studio: Allen Lane Sales Rank: 4068 Related Items:
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 Rating: - magnificient documentary and close analysis, but...This is an excellent book, with a qualifying 'but'. If you want to understand the dynamic of 'Hitlers Empire', how it developed and collapsed, and the details of its particular favour of genocidal gangsterism, then this will satisfy all the curiosity you have, and then some. My only complain about the main content is that it is a bit short on personalities (though this may be an unavoidable problem - the focus of the book is, after all, on process and governance). You get little real feel for the _people_ who did all this. Mazower does not mention anyone having nightmares, or developing a drink problem (lots of people are mentioned as having drinking problems, but only for the usual, soap-opera sort of reasons, not because of a day job in ... Read More: Rating: - ExcellentThis is a first class book which allows a comparative reading of the Nazi occupation of different countries of Europe. What it really shows is the difficulty of trying to see Nazi occupation as a monolith. In reality the practice pursued in the different occupied countries varied enormously- according to which German administration was dominant in the occupied country, according to Nazi stereotypes of each country and what they hoped to achieved from occupying it, according to how the population of each country responded, not forgetting that Nazi occupations generally became more severe with time. A complex history but well worth reading about. Rating:  - Britain colonized India, Germany colonized Europe. Europeans didn't like the taste of their own medicineIt's easy to work out if you'll like this book. The subject is, how did Nazi Germany administer and rule the countries they conquered and annexed? If you're already rolling your eyes and struggling to keep a yawn down, then clearly this book is not for you. On the other hand, if like me, you think, "wow, what an interesting subject," then you will probably like this book, and it should fulfil your expectations with ease. I only skipped about four pages about France's art scene and underground politics, and a page at the end that waffled on about the post war economy, so it's not a dull difficult to read book. It goes into a fair amount of detail of how each country was handled differently. Eastern countries like Russia and Poland ... Read More: Rating: - It had a great review in The Spectator's book pagesThis book had a really excellent review in the London Spectator magazine dated 5th July. It made me put this book on my wishlist. One of the central theses of the book is that the Germans themselves were surprised and unprepared for the complete collapse of their Western European enemies in 1940. Thus, there were no settled policies, and given the subjective nature of racial hatred, and the competing heirarchies of SS, the Army, Civil Service and competing Gauleiters, chaos was inevitable and, ultimately, cost Germany the war. Mythical concepts of German destiny and racial hatred prevailed over military necessity and pragmatism. Mazower quotes Goebbels saying, perhaps ironically, 'If anyone asks us how you conceive the new Europe, we have to reply ... Read More: Rating: - Eye-OpeningBrilliant! This immense and wonderful book is a revelation, not just about the extraordinary state of Nazi occupied Europe but about world politics before and after. |
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