Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning Tapa blanda - 2016

Paperback. Very Good.

Black Earth is a pioneering, absorbing exploration of the ideas and politics that enabled the Nazi extermination of the Jews.Condition: Used. Spine appears tight. Some slight curving to front cover from use. Slightly tacky remnants of old sales sticker on top right corner of front cover.

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZEWe have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German colonial war in the East, many on the fertile black earth that the Nazis believed would feed the German people.It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think.Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands was an acclaimed exploration of what happened in eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945, when Nazi and Soviet policy brought death… Leer más

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats.

Paperback / softback. New. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats.

Penguin Random House. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Random House UK | 2016 | Mass Market Paperback | 480 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German colonial war in the East, many on the fertile black earth that the Nazis believed would feed the German people. It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, and some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological and environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we… Leer más