Bücher von Mark Mazower

Drawing on a welter of original research, HITLER'S EMPIRE upends half a century of conventional wisdom on the Nazis' campaign to take over Europe. Mark Mazower is the author of numerous books on 20th centure European history, including THE BALKANS and DARK CONTINENT.

Europa im Jahr 1942: Hitler kontrollierte eine Landmasse, die größer als die USA, dichter besiedelt und wirtschaftlich produktiver als jede andere war. Das Ziel der Nationalsozialisten, "Herren in Europa" zu werden, schien nahezu erreicht. Auch wenn die Tatsache 1945 rasch in Vergessenheit geriet: Die besetzten Länder in Europa kooperierten, sie lieferten Deutschland, was es an Menschen und Material forderte. Mark Mazower schildert, gestützt auf eine beeindruckende Fülle von Quellen und Zeugnissen, wie Hitler sein Großreich errichtete, wie es funktionierte und warum ausgerechnet die Nazi-Ideologie selbst seinen Zerfall beschleunigte.

Please note that this edition does not include illustrations.The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation.Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries.Written with a Pepysian sense of the texture of daily life in the city through the ages, and with breathtakingly detailed historical research, Salonica evokes the sights, smells, habits, songs and responses of a unique city and its inhabitants. The history of Salonica is one of forgotten alternatives and wrong choices, of identities assumed and discarded. For centuries Jews, Christians and Muslims have succeeded each other in ascendancy, each people intent on erasing the presence of their predecessors, and the result is a city of extraordinarily rich cultural traditions and memories of extreme violence and genocide, one that sits on the overlapping hinterlands of both Europe and the East.Mark Mazower has written a work of astonishing depth and originality about this remarkable city. Magnificently researched and beautifully written, it is more than a book about a place; it studies in detail the way in which three great faiths and peoples have inhabited the same territory, and how smooth transitions and adaptations have been interwoven with violent endings and new beginnings.