ROBERT CRAWFORD

This chilling, fascinating new book is the first fully to 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 Britain 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 fought in pursuit of a fantasy: the years in which Western Europe could settle the world's fate were, by 1939, long past. This is a major book by a major author and will provoke an enormous amount of controversy and debate.

Acknowledged masters such as Robert Burns and Don Paterson are well represented, their work augmented by that of neglected and unknown writers. Throughout the volume, poetry in Gaelic, Latin and other languages is given in parallel text; poems in Scots are fully glossed. With its comprehensive, lively Introduction, this unique anthology - mingling Highland and Lowland, the religious and the profane, poems by kings and crofters - is the definitive guide to the whole poetry of Scotland.

The second volume of Robert Crawford s magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist visionary poet and troubled man drawing on extensive new sources In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century s most important poet Robert Crawford completes the story he began in Young Eliot Drawing on extensive new sources and letters this is the first full scale biography to make use of Eliot s most significant surviving correspondence including the archive of letters unsealed for the first time in 2020 detailing his decades long love affair with Emily Hale This long awaited second volume Eliot After The Waste Land tells the story of the mature Eliot his years as a world renowned writer and intellectual and his troubled interior life From his time as an exhausted bank employee after the publication of The Waste Land through the emotional turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s and his years as a firewatcher in bombed wartime London Crawford reveals the public and personal experiences that helped generate some of Eliot s masterpieces He explores the poet s religious conversion his editorship at Faber and Faber his separation from Vivien Haigh Wood and happy second marriage to Valerie Fletcher and his great work Four Quartets Robert Crawfo