1941: The Year Germany Lost the War by Andrew Nagorski (English) Hardcover Book

Description: 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War by Andrew Nagorski "By 1941, Nazi armies were ruling Europe, bombing London, and sinking British and American ships, ... but Nagorski [believes] that Hitlers grave miscalculations had already assigned Germany to ruin. By the end of that year Hitler had taken almost every wrong decision possible and though the fighting went on until 1945, Germany was already vanquished"--Provided by publisher. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Bestselling historian Andrew Nagorski takes a fresh look at the decisive year 1941, when Hitlers miscalculations and policy of terror propelled Churchill, FDR, and Stalin into a powerful new alliance that defeated Nazi Germany. In early 1941, Hitlers armies ruled most of Europe. Churchills Britain was an isolated holdout against the Nazi tide, but German bombers were attacking its cities and German U-boats were attacking its ships. Stalin was observing the terms of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and Roosevelt was vowing to keep the United States out of the war. Hitler was confident that his aim of total victory was within reach. \By the end of 1941, all that changed. Hitler had repeatedly gambled on escalation and lost: by invading the Soviet Union and committing a series of disastrous military blunders; by making mass murder and terror his weapons of choice, and by rushing to declare war on the United States after Japans attack on Pearl Harbor. Britain emerged with two powerful new allies--Russia and the United States. By then, Germany was doomed to defeat. Nagorski illuminates the actions of the major characters of this pivotal year as never before. 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War is a stunning examination of unbridled megalomania versus determined leadership. It also reveals how 1941 set the Holocaust in motion, and presaged the postwar division of Europe, triggering the Cold War. 1941 was a year that forever defined our world. Author Biography Andrew Nagorski served as Newsweeks bureau chief in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw, and Berlin. He is the author of seven previous critically acclaimed books, including Hitlerland and The Nazi Hunters. He has also written for countless publications. Visit him at AndrewNagorski.com. Review "Nagorski skillfully weaves diplomatic, political and military narratives into a compelling whole." --Historynet.com "[A] thoughtful analysis of a critical year in WWII...Nagorski brings keen psychological insights into the world leaders involved."--Booklist"[A} successful history...[Nagorski] is a clear and lucid writer whose account of this pivotal year will please history buffs."--Publishers Weekly "A terrific book."--Elizabeth George, Goodreads "Nagorski tells it well."--Foreign Affairs"Entertaining...keeps the focus at a high level, on the men--Roosevelt, Churchill, but above all Hitler and Stalin--who directed the great powers at war...Nagorski is able to keep up the pace of the narrative while showing how global conflict was interconnected."--The Wall Street Journal "An essential text...vivid and compelling detail."--The Washington Post "A lively, opinionated account of a critical year."--Kirkus"Andrew Nagorskis The Year Germany Lost the War is a seamlessly written and well-researched investigation of how Hitler bungled his geopolitical playing hand in 1941, thereby sinking the Third Reich before America even entered World War II. There is never a dull moment or lull in this fast-paced narrative. Highly recommended!"--Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race and Chair in Humanities and Professor, Rice University "A compelling case...gripping drama."--Washington Independent Review of Books Praise for THE NAZI HUNTERS "Nagorski is a veteran author and foreign correspondent whose Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power is the alpha to the omega of The Nazi Hunters. . . . [a] deep and sweeping account of a relentless search for justice that began in 1945 and is only now coming to an end." (The Washington Post) "Vivid, reader-friendly . . . Mr. Nagorskis fine book is comprehensively informative and a highly involving read." (Wall Street Journal) "A thrilling nonfiction account of postwar justice. . . . Detailed, dramatic, and at times gripping." (Salon) "An epic tale . . . the books main actors are painted with a complex but unsparing clarity." (Christian Science Monitor) "A reminder of the fact that the Nazi trials of the last 70 years were never a foregone conclusion." (TIME) "A history that reads like an adventure story." (Florida Times Union) "Far more intriguing than any Hollywood production. The proofs highlight every page of Andrew Nagorskis The Nazi Hunters, a new study of the evildoers and how they were pursued. . . . [Nagorski] has a discerning eye and a gift for the revealing anecdote." (City Journal) The Nazi hunters, like their prey, are passing away. As Nagorski points out, that "is why their stories can and should be told now." His book captures their work in vivid and detailed prose. For journalists, it provides the added enjoyment of reading about other peoples investigative tricks and tools. The Nazi Hunters stands as both a tribute to, and a record, of a unique handful of people who devoted their lives to justice. (Overseas Press Club) "A comprehensive treatment of the dogged men and women whose heroic efforts restored a measure of justice to millions of murdered souls." (The Weekly Standard) "The author provides fascinating insight into those who continued to pursue war criminals after the spotlight had faded." (Library Journal) "In a world that is, alas, awash in crimes against humanity, we have an urgent need to address these complex and controversial questions." (Jerusalem Post) "An extremely valuable, highly readable book." (Arizona Jewish Post) "Andrew Nagorskis The Nazi Hunters comes at a significant point, at the juncture between living memory and the historical record... His account is highly objective and balanced... Its a narrative that will hold you, even if youve followed this story over the decades." (The Dallas Morning News) "A detailed look at the grim work of tracking Nazis over the decades since World War II. . . . absorbing." (Kirkus Reviews) "An admirably accessible and intimate narrative. . . . [Nagorski] reveals the differences in tactics, politics and personalities that have led to feuds among the Nazi hunters themselves. . . . for all their rivalries and failings, the Nazi hunters are saluted by Nagorski for their accomplishments: not just in helping to prosecute the most egregious of the perpetrators, but also in etching the details of Nazi crimes -- beyond doubt or dispute -- in the historical record." (The Forward) "Andrew Nagorski has produced an important work--a well-written and revealing book about the darkest acts of World War II." (Alan Furst, author of Spies of Warsaw and Kingdom of Shadows ) "The world failed the victims not only during the Holocaust but afterwards, as perpetrators were allowed to go on with their lives. A few determined Nazi hunters tried to bring justice. This is their story. It must be read." (Alan Dershowitz, author of Abraham: The Worlds First (but certainly not last) Jewish Lawyer ) "Andrew Nagorski spins a gripping, historically urgent narrative in The Nazi Hunters. He demonstrates that how we deal with the most evil perpetrators among us, is as much about who we are as it is about the criminals. The Nazi Hunters is really about the present: are we willing to do the consuming and often thankless work of holding criminals from the Balkans to the Middle East and Africa accountable for unspeakable acts? This could not be a more timely reminder of the worlds moral responsibility toward perpetrators of war crimes." (Kati Marton, author of The Great Escape and Enemies of the People ) "A fascinating collective portrait of a variety of Nazi hunters. Some, Simon Wiesenthal and the Klarsfelds, are well known. But the most fascinating aspect of the book is Nagorskis portrayal of less well-known figures: the Polish judge Jan Sehn, who first investigated the Nazi death camps; the German prosecutor, Fritz Bauer, who instigated both the capture of Eichmann and the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial; and William Denson, who convicted hundreds of the most notorious concentration camp guards." (Christopher Browning, author of Ordinary Men and The Origins of the Final Solution ) "A war continued after World War II to bring its mass murderers to justice. Andrew Nagorski tells the story of the dogged search by some for the killers as well as the accommodations made by others to let this sordid chapter of history remain buried. Meticulously researched, superbly written, The Nazi Hunters is fascinating--disturbing, to be sure--but fascinating." (Douglas Waller, author of Disciples and Wild Bill Donovan ) "Andrew Nagorski, author of the mesmerizing Hitlerland, has made a definitive and invaluable contribution to the historical record with his outstanding successor work, The Nazi Hunters. Integrating the diffuse strands of a great decades long drama before a vanishing window of history has closed, the author has crafted the fascinating and emotionally galvanizing narrative of the hunt for notorious Nazi fugitives ranging from Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele to the SS officers and concentration camp commandants who fled from the ashes of Germanys defeat in World War II. Not only an investigative and intelligence page-turner, The Nazi Hunters tells the story of an epic and global quest for justice rather than revenge." (Gordon M. Goldstein, adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and author of Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam ) "The last former Nazis are dying out, and so, too, are those whose lifes work was to hunt them down. Nagorski tells their stories evenhandedly, uncovering a fascinating cast of characters from all over the world and placing their efforts in a broader perspective." (Foreign Affairs) "The Nazi Hunters is, variously, horrifying, informative, exciting and enlightening, but it must be read in small doses for there is so much in it to grasp." (Providence Journal) Praise for HITLERLAND "Andrew Nagorski has written an entertaining chronicle . . . Hitlerland brings back to life some early delusions about Hitlers rise that now seem unthinkable. Any reader trying to puzzle out todays world will be unsettled by the reminder of how easy it is to get things wrong." (The Economist) "Riveting . . . this is a book that is full of things I never knew, and I found all of them interesting. It should be on everybodys must read list who is interested in history." (Michael Korda The Daily Beast) "Hitlerland is a bit of guilty pleasure . . . fascinating." (Washington Post) "Compulsively readable and deeply researched." (The Weekly Standard) "Andrew Nagorski, a deft storyteller, has plumbed the dispatches, diaries, letters, and interviews of American journalists, diplomats and others who were present in Berlin to write a fascinating account of a fateful era." (Henry Kissinger ) "Andrew Nagorski once again turns his perceptive, seasoned foreign correspondents eye to a dramatic historical subject. This eye--opening account of the Americans in 1920s and 1930s Berlin offers a totally new perspective on a subject we thought we already knew." (Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History ) "Andrew Nagorskis Hitlerland is a fresh, compelling portrait of Nazi Germany, as seen through the eyes of a fascinating array of Americans who lived and worked there during Hitlers rise to power. The extraordinary saga of Putzi Hanfstaengl, a Harvard graduate who became Hitlers court jester, is just one of the many page turning stories that makes Hitlerland a book not to be missed." (Lynne Olson, author of Citizens of London ) "The rise of Hitler and the Nazi state, one of the most consequential and profound narratives in all of world politics, receives compelling new treatment in Andrew Nagorskis outstanding Hitlerland. By illuminating the disparate experiences of the eras preeminent American diplomats, journalists, intellectuals and others, Nagorski has created an engrossing, harrowing and vividly drawn mosaic of eyewitness accounts to one of historys most phenomenal catastrophes." (Gordon M. Goldstein, adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and author of Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam ) "At times deliciously gossipy, at times thoroughly chilling, Hitlerland offers countless novel insights into Germanys evolution from struggling democracy in the 1920s to totalitarian dictatorship in the 1930s. The intimate portraits from Hitler down add an almost tangible sense of the foibles, ambitions, insecurities and perversities of the relatively small top Nazi elite whose actions plunged our world into a catastrophe from which we are yet fully to recover. The Americans themselves come alive as a group of intense, enterprising journalists and diplomats faced with the greatest challenge of their lives." (Misha Glenny, author of The Balkans 1804--1999 ) "Engaging if chilling. . . . A broader look at Americans who had a ringside seat to Hitlers rise. Its a fascinating cast . . . a fast--paced tale." (USA Today)Nagorskis book is a portrait of hubris and megalomania pitted against the emerging opposition. His chronicle sets the stage for how events led to the Holocaust, and foreshadows the postwar division of Europe, which ultimately led to the Cold War."--Overseas Press Club "Andrew Nagorski has given us a vivid account of the year that shaped not only the conflict of the hour but the course of our lives--even now."--Jon Meacham, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of America"Andrew Nagorski s vivid, incisive account shows how and why 1941 marked not just the beginning, but the beginning of the end, of World War II."--William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era and Gorbachev: His Life and Times"1941 must have been the bravest and stupidest year of modern times. With gripping narrative and eye-popping revelation, Andrew Nagorski shows us why character is destiny."--Evan Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Being Nixon and Ikes Bluff"In 1941, the seemingly all-powerful Adolf Hitler snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by making two fatal mistakes: declaring war on the Soviet Union and the United States. In his gripping, deeply researched account of this pivotal roller-coaster year in World War II, Andrew Nagorski masterfully shows how Hitlers hubris and willful lack of knowledge about his powerful new foes led to the Nazis destruction and set the stage for the Cold War that still haunts us today."--Lynne Olson, author of Last Hope Island and Madame Fourcades Secret War Review Quote Praise for THE NAZI HUNTERS "Nagorski is a veteran author and foreign correspondent whose Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power is the alpha to the omega of The Nazi Hunters . . . . [a] deep and sweeping account of a relentless search for justice that began in 1945 and is only now coming to an end." (The Washington Post) "Vivid, reader-friendly . . . Mr. Nagorskis fine book is comprehensively informative and a highly involving read." (Wall Street Journal) "A thrilling nonfiction account of postwar justice. . . . Detailed, dramatic, and at times gripping." (Salon) "An epic tale . . . the books main actors are painted with a complex but unsparing clarity." (Christian Science Monitor) "A reminder of the fact that the Nazi trials of the last 70 years were never a foregone conclusion." (TIME) "A history that reads like an adventure story." (Florida Times Union) "Far more intriguing than any Hollywood production. The proofs highlight every page of Andrew Nagorskis The Nazi Hunters , a new study of the evildoers and how they were pursued. . . . [Nagorski] has a discerning eye and a gift for the revealing anecdote." (City Journal) The Nazi hunters, like their prey, are passing away. As Nagorski points out, that "is why their stories can and should be told now." His book captures their work in vivid and detailed prose. For journalists, it provides the added enjoyment of reading about other peoples investigative tricks and tools. The Nazi Hunters stands as both a tribute to, and a record, of a unique handful of people who devoted their lives to justice. (Overseas Press Club) "A comprehensive treatment of the dogged men and women whose heroic efforts restored a measure of justice to millions of murdered souls." (The Weekly Standard) "The author provides fascinating insight into those who continued to pursue war criminals after the spotlight had faded." (Library Journal) "In a world that is, alas, awash in crimes against humanity, we have an urgent need to address these complex and controversial questions." (Jerusalem Post) "An extremely valuable, highly readable book." (Arizona Jewish Post) "Andrew Nagorskis The Nazi Hunters comes at a significant point, at the juncture between living memory and the historical record... His account is highly objective and balanced... Its a narrative that will hold you, even if youve followed this story over the decades." (The Dallas Morning News) "A detailed look at the grim work of tracking Nazis over the decades since World War II. . . . absorbing." (Kirkus Reviews) "An admirably accessible and intimate narrative. . . . [Nagorski] reveals the differences in tactics, politics and personalities that have led to feuds among the Nazi hunters themselves. . . . for all their rivalries and failings, the Nazi hunters are saluted by Nagorski for their accomplishments: not just in helping to prosecute the most egregious of the perpetrators, but also in etching the details of Nazi crimes -- beyond doubt or dispute -- in the historical record." (The Forward) " Andrew Nagorski has produced an important work--a well-written and revealing book about the darkest acts of World War II." (Alan Furst, author of Spies of Warsaw and Kingdom of Shadows ) "The world failed the victims not only during the Holocaust but afterwards, as perpetrators were allowed to go on with their lives. A few determined Nazi hunters tried to bring justice. This is their story. It must be read." (Alan Dershowitz, author of Abraham: The Worlds First (but certainly not last) Jewish Lawyer ) "Andrew Nagorski spins a gripping, historically urgent narrative in The Nazi Hunters . He demonstrates that how we deal with the most evil perpetrators among us, is as much about who we are as it is about the criminals. The Nazi Hunters is really about the present: are we willing to do the consuming and often thankless work of holding criminals from the Balkans to the Middle East and Africa accountable for unspeakable acts? This could not be a more timely reminder of the worlds moral responsibility toward perpetrators of war crimes." (Kati Marton, author of The Great Escape and Enemies of the People ) "A fascinating collective portrait of a variety of Nazi hunters. Some, Simon Wiesenthal and the Klarsfelds, are well known. But the most fascinating aspect of the book is Nagorskis portrayal of less well-known figures: the Polish judge Jan Sehn, who first investigated the Nazi death camps; the German prosecutor, Fritz Bauer, who instigated both the capture of Eichmann and the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial; and William Denson, who convicted hundreds of the most notorious concentration camp guards." (Christopher Browning, author of Ordinary Men and The Origins of the Final Solution ) "A war continued after World War II to bring its mass murderers to justice. Andrew Nagorski tells the story of the dogged search by some for the killers as well as the accommodations made by others to let this sordid chapter of history remain buried. Meticulously researched, superbly written, The Nazi Hunters is fascinating--disturbing, to be sure--but fascinating." (Douglas Waller, author of Disciples and Wild Bill Donovan ) "Andrew Nagorski, author of the mesmerizing Hitlerland , has made a definitive and invaluable contribution to the historical record with his outstanding successor work, The Nazi Hunters . Integrating the diffuse strands of a great decades long drama before a vanishing window of history has closed, the author has crafted the fascinating and emotionally galvanizing narrative of the hunt for notorious Nazi fugitives ranging from Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele to the SS officers and concentration camp commandants who fled from the ashes of Germanys defeat in World War II. Not only an investigative and intelligence page-turner, The Nazi Hunters tells the story of an epic and global quest for justice rather than revenge." (Gordon M. Goldstein, adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and author of Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam ) "The last former Nazis are dying out, and so, too, are those whose lifes work was to hunt them down. Nagorski tells their stories evenhandedly, uncovering a fascinating cast of characters from all over the world and placing their efforts in a broader perspective." (Foreign Affairs) " The Nazi Hunters is, variously, horrifying, informative, exciting and enlightening, but it must be read in small doses for there is so much in it to grasp." (Providence Journal) Praise for HITLERLAND "Andrew Nagorski has written an entertaining chronicle . . . Hitlerland brings back to life some early delusions about Hitlers rise that now seem unthinkable. Any reader trying to puzzle out todays world will be unsettled by the reminder of how easy it is to get things wrong." (The Economist) "Riveting . . . this is a book that is full of things I never knew, and I found all of them interesting. It should be on everybodys must read list who is interested in history." (Michael Korda The Daily Beast) " Hitlerland is a bit of guilty pleasure . . . fascinating." (Washington Post) "Compulsively readable and deeply researched." (The Weekly Standard) "Andrew Nagorski, a deft storyteller, has plumbed the dispatches, diaries, letters, and interviews of American journalists, diplomats and others who were present in Berlin to write a fascinating account of a fateful era." (Henry Kissinger ) "Andrew Nagorski once again turns his perceptive, seasoned foreign correspondents eye to a dramatic historical subject. This eye--opening account of the Americans in 1920s and 1930s Berlin offers a totally new perspective on a subject we thought we already knew." (Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History ) "Andrew Nagorskis Hitlerland is a fresh, compelling portrait of Nazi Germany, as seen through the eyes of a fascinating array of Americans who lived and worked there during Hitlers rise to power. The extraordinary saga of Putzi Hanfstaengl, a Harvard graduate who became Hitlers court jester, is just one of the many page turning stories that makes Hitlerland a book not to be missed." (Lynne Olson, author of Citizens of London ) "The rise of Hitler and the Nazi state, one of the most consequential and profound narratives in all of world politics, receives compelling new treatment in Andrew Nagorskis outstanding Hitlerland . By illuminating the disparate experiences of the eras preeminent American diplomats, journalists, intellectuals and others, Nagorski has created an engrossing, harrowing and vividly drawn mosaic of eyewitness accounts to one of historys most phenomenal catastrophes." (Gordon M. Goldstein, adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and author of Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam ) "At times deliciously gossipy, at times thoroughly chilling, Hitlerland offers countless novel insights into Germanys evolution from struggling democracy in the 1920s to totalitarian dictatorship in the 1930s. The intimate portraits from Hitler down add an almost tangible sense of the foibles, ambitions, insecurities and perversities of the relatively small top Nazi elite whose actions plu Excerpt from Book 1941: The Year Germany Lost the War INTRODUCTION On June 28, 1940, shortly after the German invasion of France and that countrys capitulation, Adolf Hitler visited Paris for the first and only time in his life. During the mere three hours he spent in the French capital, there was no victory parade. The ostensible reason was the fear of British air raids. But the German leader later offered another explanation: "We arent at the end yet." At that point, Hitlers Germany had reached its apogee. It had already dismembered Czechoslovakia, annexed Austria, and conquered Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, culminating in its especially satisfying humiliation of France. The German military machine looked to be unstoppable. Nonetheless, Hitler understood that his messianic dream of a new Germanic empire was only partially fulfilled. Three leaders stood in his way. Britains Winston Churchill, who replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister at the moment that France fell, was proclaiming Britains defiance and determination to fight back. The Soviet Unions Joseph Stalin remained a de facto but uncertain ally since the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact less than a year earlier, with neither tyrant completely trusting the other not to strike. And across the Atlantic, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was promising to keep the United States out of the conflict, but there was no doubt about his sympathy for an increasingly isolated Britain. So instead of participating in military festivities in Paris, Hitler used the short visit as an opportunity to get a quick look at the citys cultural landmarks. Accompanied by his favorite architect Albert Speer and other aides, he drove directly to the Paris Opera, where an attendant took him on a tour of the empty, lavishly ornamented building. According to Speer, Hitler "went into ecstasies about its beauty." Then the German delegation took in the Madeleine church, the Champs- Details ISBN1501181114 Author Andrew Nagorski Short Title 1941 THE YEAR GERMANY LOST THE Pages 400 Publisher Simon & Schuster Language English ISBN-10 1501181114 ISBN-13 9781501181115 Format Hardcover Year 2019 Subtitle The Year Germany Lost the War Publication Date 2019-06-04 Imprint Simon & Schuster DEWEY 940.5421 Audience General UK Release Date 2019-06-04 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137750418;

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