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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning Hardcover – 2015

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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Tim Duggan Books (2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1101903457
  • ISBN-13: 978-1101903452
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 3.6 x 24.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
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"Timothy Snyder's bold new approach to the Holocaust links Hitler's racial worldview to the destruction of states and the quest for land and food. This insight leads to thought-provoking and disturbing conclusions for today's world. Black Earth uses the recent past's terrible inhumanity to underline an urgent need to rethink our own future" (Ian Kershaw)

"A 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 Lipstadt)

"Part history, part political theory, Black Earth is a learned and challenging reinterpretation" (Henry A. Kissinger)

"In this unusual and innovative book, Timothy Snyder takes a fresh look at the intellectual origins of the Holocaust, placing Hitler's 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) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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A radical reframing of the Holocaust that challenges prevailing myths and draws disturbing parallels with the present --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 starsHitler Was A Racial Anarchist.
By Dr Barry Clayton TOP 500 REVIEWER on 18 Sept. 2015
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This is a very important book by a renowned specialist on Europe, Eastern Europe in particular. His book 'Bloodlands' was a masterly account of what took place in Eastern Europe between 1933 and.1945. He has written many other acclaimed books including one on Stalin and Europe, and the Ukraine. He is Professor of History at Yale. Snyder is also a fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences, and sits on the advisory council of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.

In his latest book he asks: Why do strangers kill strangers, as they did under Hitler? Why do neighbours kill neighbours? He also reminds us that many of the killers of Jews were not Nazis or even German. Few of the murdered Jews saw a concentration camp. As he says, we blame the state , ' though murder was possible only where state institutions were destroyed'. His key message, however, is that the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal. Its lessons have not been learned. The precise circumstances of the year 1941 will not appear again, but something very similar might. The Holocaust, says Professor Snyder, is not only history, but warning.

In a masterly introduction the author examines Hitler's beliefs about nature, struggle, murder, sex, religion, Jews and race. I have never read a better account. In subsequent chapters Snyder covers: Living space, Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow, the promise of Palestine, Auschwitz, and sovereignty. His sources are excellent as one would expect.

By the time the gas chambers were in operation over one million Jews were alredy dead: shot over pits or ravines. They had been murdered in the East on the fertile black earth that Hitler believed would feed the German people.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsA highly readable history, with a warning that should be heeded
By Lost John TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 29 Nov. 2015
Format: Hardcover
In Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (2010), Timothy Snyder wrote of the murder of 14 million people between 1930 and 1945 in the area of central Europe that takes in, in today’s terms, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States, Petersburg, the western rim of the Russian Federation, and most of Poland.

For Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, Snyder’s focal point moves west somewhat (and perhaps a little to the south), centring more on Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hitler, less on the pre-war Soviet Union and Stalin. Large scale killings in the pre-war Soviet Union are referenced, and the post-1939 slaughter in Poland and points east, north-east and south-east of Poland is still the dominant part of the picture – for those are the places where the Holocaust mainly occurred – but the attention paid to the murder of Jews and other Nazi victim groups drawn from elsewhere in Europe is somewhat greater than in Bloodlands, and Hitler’s thinking (particularly as set-out in Mein Kampf) and pre-war strategic moves on Austria and Czechoslovakia are given new, detailed consideration.

In the closing chapters of Bloodlands, Snyder presented very powerfully the thesis that the killing the earlier chapters of his book described had been perpetrated by people not essentially different from ourselves. Psychologically, the killing became rather easy once the victim group was endowed with an ‘otherness’; once it was identified as a class or racial enemy.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Warning from History
By atticusfinch1048 TOP 500 REVIEWER on 28 Sept. 2015
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning is the latest book from the excellent historian Timothy Snyder, which we should sit up and take notice of. Like the famous statement that if we fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, is never more apt than now with the current situation in the middle east. The lessons from this book can be used time and time again especially when we allow civilisations to collapse.

In what has to be one of the best introductions on the subject Snyder examines Hitler’s beliefs that drove his politics and actions such as, nature, struggle, Jews, race, murder, sex and religion, He is also asking the questions of Why neighbour turned on neighbour? How strangers can kill others? His reading of the primary sources as well as secondary sources is second to none, and those sources are excellent.

Snyder is able to show that Hilter believed that history was a perpetual struggle for survival of the fittest race and that morality, secular ethics stood in the way of that supreme drive. That he was able in his mind reduced all humans to a state of nature, ignoring modern science, and that interfering in nature was right.

Snyder also notes that race replaced the state as the supreme element of human society. This he believed would allow for anarchy, a stateless society where no laws, ethics or rules exist in order for the Nazi’s to carry out what they needed for the improvement of the ‘Aryan’ race. It must also be understood that is was why the Holocaust succeeded so well in Eastern Poland, Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.

By the time the concentration extermination camps opened it must be understood that around three million Jews had already been murdered in Eastern Europe.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsRUBBISH

TOOK MY COPY BACK, THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST WAS NOT THE FIRST AND NOT THE WORST, AND POSSIBLY NOT THE LAST.
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Published 4 months ago by chris
5.0 out of 5 starsA great book. Essential reading.

This is one of the best books about the Holocaust. It explores what it meant rather than concentrating on the narrative of what happened - though Snyder covers
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Published 5 months ago by Septimius
5.0 out of 5 starsI have read several books on the holocaust and this ...

I have read several books on the holocaust and this is by far the most moving and I think insightful. It challenges many of the cliches of how the events of the holocaust unfolded. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

A really interesting book and very informative. on the history of that tie.

Published 6 months ago by Eileen
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Could not get into this book, have to keep going back to it

Published 6 months ago by Dawn Williams
5.0 out of 5 starsGame Changing History

Timothy Snyder has changed the way I think about WWII more than any other writer - first Bloodlands and now Black Earth. Read more

Published 6 months ago by The Outsider
4.0 out of 5 starsI would have liked some of his theories and ideas to be supported ...

This is a very thought-provoking book which is based around the hypothesis that the destruction of the state facilitated the political space for genocide. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Michael Gray
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Insightful into the thinking that drove the Holocaust.

Published 7 months ago by andrew mcclelland
3.0 out of 5 starsA Brilliant Historian And A Lousy Prophet

This is a difficult book to review, as parts of it are brilliant whilst others, to say the very least, are not. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Mark T
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good book for history

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