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Paperback. Pub Date: August. 2007 Pages: 848 Publisher: Penguin This Chilling Fascinating new book is THE FIRST fully to the get to grips with how Hitler's Nazi empire really functioned. There was no Aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics - IT was Hitler's obsession and the reason the Nazis came to power in the first place. The Second World War was fought. in Hitler's view. to create a European Empire strong enough to take on the United States - a last chance for Europe to dig itself in before being swept away by the USA's ever greater power. But. as The Wages of Destruction makes clear. Hitler was never remotely strong enough to beat either itain or the Soviet Union - and never even had a serious plan as to how he might defeat the USA . It took years of fighting and the deaths of millions of people to destroy the Third Reich. but effectively World War II in Europe was ...