By Branko MilanovicMark Mazower’s “Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe” is a magisterial book.I read it on vacation, and it is not a book I would suggest you take with you to the beach — unless you want to spoil your vacation. But once you have made such a choice, you cannot stop reading it, and the book will stay with you throughout your stay (and I believe much longer).
This Summer I read, almost back-to-back, Adam Tooze’s “The Deluge” and Mazower’s “Hitler’s Empire.” The first covers the period 1916-31, the second, the Nazi rule of Europe 1936-45.
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Source: The Globalist
