Tag: Nazism

The Nazis may have lost the battle. But the war is just beginning. Summer, 2025. A US senator burns to death in his Washington townhouse. Masked gunmen massacre supporters during a football match in Berlin. Meanwhile, an old man is murdered while he sleeps in the dementia ward of a German hospital. These three seemingly unconnected events mark the first steps in a terrifying countdown to apocalypse.

From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Theodore “Teddy” Hartigan is the scion of a wealthy Washington DC family who place him into a comfortable job at the State Department and a placid diplomat’s career. In 1938, as Hitler’s inexorable rise continues, Teddy is re-assigned to the US Consulate in Amsterdam to replace fleeing staff.

From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis.