Description
Berlin, November 1937. In a secret meeting with his top advisors, Adolf Hitler proclaims the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in Europe. Some conservatives are unnerved by this grandiose plan, but they are soon silenced, setting in motion events that will lead to the most calamitous war in history. Benjamin Carter Hett, the author of The Death of Democracy, his acclaimed history of the fall of the Weimar Republic, takes us from Berlin to London, Moscow, and Washington to show how anti-Nazi forces inside and outside Germany came to understand Hitler's true menace to European civilization and learned to oppose him. Drawing on original sources in German, English, French, and Russian, including newly released intelligence documents, he paints a sweeping portrait of governments under siege, populated by larger-than-life figures like Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin Roosevelt, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Vyacheslav Molotov. The Nazi Menace evokes a time when the verities of life were subverted, a time marked by fake news, cultural unrest over refugees, and the challenges of national security in a consumerist democracy. To read Hett's book is to see the 1930s-and our world today-in a new and unnerving light.
A panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War-a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time.
About the Author
Benjamin Carter Hett is the author of The Death of Democracy, Burning the Reichstag, Crossing Hitler, and Death in the Tiergarten. He is a professor of history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and holds a PhD in history from Harvard University and a law degree from the University of Toronto. Born in Rochester, New York, he grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, and now lives in New York City.
Book Information
ISBN 9781250798763
Author Benjamin Carter Hett
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 464g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm * 32mm
A panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War-a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time.
About the Author
Benjamin Carter Hett is the author of The Death of Democracy, Burning the Reichstag, Crossing Hitler, and Death in the Tiergarten. He is a professor of history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and holds a PhD in history from Harvard University and a law degree from the University of Toronto. Born in Rochester, New York, he grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, and now lives in New York City.
Book Information
ISBN 9781250798763
Author Benjamin Carter Hett
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 464g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm * 32mm
