Hitler's Empire

A powerful, disturbing new history by one of Britain's leading historians. The Nazi Empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping ever undertaken in Europe's history. It was an attempt, under conditions of continuous war, to create a permanent, new racial order. As we now all know, this Empire rapidly collapsed in military failure, but its destruction cost millions of lives, and for many millions of others it was too late: they had already been killed by an ideology that embraced a future Europe 'cleansed' of 'alien elements'. ,br>This incredible trauma scars Europe to the present day and yet no book has been written which attempts to view the Nazi Empire as a whole and which takes seriously the chaotic, evolving ideas behind Nazi rule. Empire of Death is therefore both a very important book and an absolutely chilling one. This was a Europe that became for immense numbers of its citizens a scarcely comprehensible nightmare and a Europe whose future we have only been spared by Germany's defeat.