Author:Mark Mazower
Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire is a provocative account of the rise and fall of Nazi Europe by one of Britain's leading historians.
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.
'Remarkable ... provocative ... an important new book'
Adam Tooze, Sunday Telegraph
'A stunning survey ... breaks new ground'
Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
'A first-class account'
Richard Overy, Literary Review
'Brilliant ... a must for anyone who has a serious interest in the dreadful Third Reich'
Justin Cartwright, Spectator
'Exposes the intellectual bankruptcy of the enterprise with forensic skill and wit'
Christopher Silvester, Daily Express
Mark Mazower is the author of Inside Hitler's Greece, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century, The Balkans - which won the Wolfson Prize for History - and Salonika: City of Ghosts, which won both the Runciman Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. He has taught at the University of Sussex, Princeton University and Birkbeck College, University of London. He is now Professor of History at Columbia University.
Top notch
—— IndependentA remarkable achievement
—— Daily MailAuthoritative, concise, wide-ranging and readable ... it is hard to see how Richard Holmes' The Western Front can be bettered
—— BBC History MagazineA story of willful blindness masquerading as secret intelligence worthy of Somerset Maugham or Graham Greene
—— New York TimesBob Drogin is an ace newspaper man, who raked through the muck of so-called intelligence that was used to justify America's invasion of Iraq -- and struck journalistic gold in this story of a con-man who told his CIA handlers exactly what they wanted to hear. If this twisted tale of deception and credulity could be read simply as a thrilling farce it would be pure delight -- but much more importantly, it is a history of our time
—— Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from RwandaBob Drogin is a brilliant reporter; in Curveball, he has produced a riveting and important investigation, full of startling and carefully documented detail, laying bare the anatomy of an intelligence failure and its contribution to a catastrophic war
—— Steve Coll, author of GHOST WARS: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin LadenBob Drogin accomplishes what only the best reporters can; he forces you to wonder how he could possibly know that! If you want to know how the CIA could have possibly been so wrong about Iraq, here is a big part of the answer. It is a case study in how even the most intelligent and capable people can, when determined enough, hear only what they wish to hear
—— Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down and Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant IslamA crucial study in the political manipulation of intelligence. Understanding how Curveball got us into Iraq will arm us for the next round of lies coming out of Washington
—— Robert Baer, author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism, and Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi CrudeCurveball is a true story, marvelously reported, about a descent into the nether world of deceit and duplicity, where the lies of a single man in an interrogation cell in Germany grew like a malign spore in the dark. When it emerged, on the lips of the President and the Secretary of State, it infected the course of world events.
—— Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for A Civil ActionHere we go again: the self-deception, the corruption of intelligence, and the abuse of authority, amid a full cast of the usual suspects in the White House and the Pentagon. It's a crucially important story, and it comes wonderfully alive in Curveball. It would be almost fun to read if the message wasn't so important-and so devastating to the integrity of the American processes.
—— Seymour M. Hershpacey, insightful and compelling
—— The ScotsmanMiranda Carter writes with lusty humour, has a fresh clarifying intelligence, and a sharp eye for telling details. This is traditional narrative history with a 21st-century zing. A real corker of a book
A highly original way of looking at the years that led up to 1914
—— Antonia Fraser , Sunday Telegraph Books of the YearCarter deftly interpolates history with psychobiography to provide a damning indictment of monarchy in all its forms
—— Will Self , New Statesmen Books of the YearA depiction of bloated power and outsize personalities in which Carter picks apart the strutting absurdity of the last emperors on the eve of catastrophe
—— Financial Times Books of the YearTakes what should have been a daunting subject and through sheer wit and narrative élan turns it into engaging drama. Carter has a notable gift for characterisation
—— Jonathan Coe , Guardian Books of the Year
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