Drawing on an unprecedented variety of sources, Mark Mazower reveals how the Nazis designed, maintained, and ultimately lost their European empire and offers a chilling vision of the world Hitler would have made had he won the war.

Mark Mazower is the Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of Hitler?s Empire and The Balkans: A Short History, winner of the Wolfson Prize for History, among other books. He lives in New York City.