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Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Black Earth by Timothy Snyder LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A radical reframing of the Holocaust that challenges prevailing myths and draws disturbing parallels with the presentLONGLISTED 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 Snyders Bloodlands was an acclaimed exploration of what happened in eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945, when Nazi and Soviet policy brought death to some 14 million people. Black Earth is a deep exploration of the ideas and politics that enabled the worst of these policies, the Nazi extermination of the Jews. Its pioneering treatment of this unprecedented crime makes the Holocaust intelligible, and thus all the more terrifying. Notes Paperback edition of the history which challenges prevailing myths about the Holocaust and draws disturbing parallels with the present. Longlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize, from the author of The Red Prince. Author Biography When Timothy Snyders book Bloodlands- Europe Between Hitler and Stalin was published in 2010, it quickly established its author as one of the leading historians of his generation, a scholar who combined formidable linguistic skills - he reads or speaks 11 languages - with an elegant literary style, white-hot moral passion and a willingness to start arguments about some of the most fraught questions of the recent past. New York TimesTimothy Snyder is Levin Professor of History at Yale University, and has written and edited a number of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books about twentieth-century European history- Bloodlands won the Hannah Arendt Prize, the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award in the Humanities and the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Black Earth was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.Snyder is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. He is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences, and sits on the advisory council of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Review Timothy Snyders bold new approach to the Holocaust links Hitlers racial worldview to the destruction of states and the quest for land and food. This insight leads to thought-provoking and disturbing conclusions for todays world. Black Earth uses the recent pasts terrible inhumanity to underline an urgent need to rethink our own future -- Ian KershawA wholly readable and utterly persuasive attempt to get us to look at the Holocaust in a different light. I read it twice, aghast but gripped by the moral abyss into which I was plunged on each page * Observer *Black Earth is provocative, challenging, and an important addition to our understanding of the Holocaust. As he did in Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder makes us rethink those things we were sure we already knew -- Deborah LipstadtPart history, part political theory, Black Earth is a learned and challenging reinterpretation -- Henry A. KissingerIn this unusual and innovative book, Timothy Snyder takes a fresh look at the intellectual origins of the Holocaust, placing Hitlers genocide firmly in the politics and diplomacy of 1930s Europe. Black Earth is required reading for anyone who cares about this difficult period of history -- Anne Applebaum Promotional A radical reframing of the Holocaust that challenges prevailing myths and draws disturbing parallels with the present Prizes Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2015 (UK) Review Text Timothy Snyders bold new approach to the Holocaust links Hitlers racial worldview to the destruction of states and the quest for land and food. This insight leads to thought-provoking and disturbing conclusions for todays world. Black Earth uses the recent pasts terrible inhumanity to underline an urgent need to rethink our own future Review Quote Timothy Snyders bold new approach to the Holocaust links Hitlers racial worldview to the destruction of states and the quest for land and food. This insight leads to thought-provoking and disturbing conclusions for todays world. Black Earth uses the recent pasts terrible inhumanity to underline an urgent need to rethink our own future Promotional "Headline" A radical reframing of the Holocaust that challenges prevailing myths and draws disturbing parallels with the present Details ISBN1784701483 Author Timothy Snyder Year 2016 ISBN-10 1784701483 ISBN-13 9781784701482 Media Book Publication Date 2016-03-17 Publisher Vintage Publishing Pages 480 Imprint Vintage Subtitle The Holocaust as History and Warning Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 940.531811 Format Paperback Short Title Black Earth Language English UK Release Date 2016-03-17 AU Release Date 2016-03-17 NZ Release Date 2016-03-17 Alternative 9781473522701 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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