Edwin Black Books
Edwin Black’s award-winning and bestselling books are found in some 200 editions in 40 languages in 190 countries. He has more than 2.2 million books in print, and they sell hourly. His books are IBM and The Holocaust (2001 and 2012), The Transfer Agreement (1984, 2009, and 2012), War Against the Weak (2003 and 2012, Banking on Baghdad (2004 and 2018), British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement (2011), The Farhud (2010), Financing the Flames (2013), Internal Combustion (2017 and 2018), Nazi Nexus (2009 and 2017), The Plan (2008), and a 1999 novel, Format C:.
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Israel Strikes Iran covers the period between Edwin Black’s first reports, in 2008, on Iran’s progress towards nuclear weapons capability and Israel’s decisive strike in June 2025.
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The award-winning, bestselling shocker detailing IBM's conscious cooperation with the Nazis in all six steps of the Holocaust, from identification to extermination.
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War Against the Weak is the gripping chronicle documenting how American corporate philanthropies launched a national campaign of ethnic cleansing in the United States, helped found and fund the Nazi eugenics of Hitler and Mengele -- and then created the modern movement of "human genetics." Some 60,000 Americans were sterilized under laws in 27 states. This expanded edition includes two new essays on state genocide.
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The Transfer Agreement is Edwin Black's compelling, award-winning story of a negotiated rescue in 1933 between Zionist organizations and the Nazis to transfer some 50,000 Jews, and $100 million of their assets to Jewish Palestine. In the process, the arrangement stopped the worldwide Jewish-led boycott launched against the Hitler regime. 25th Anniversary Edition.
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Nazi Nexus is the long-awaited wrap-up in a single explosive volume that details the pivotal corporate American connection to the Holocaust. The biggest names and crimes are all there. IBM and its facilitation of the identification and accelerated destruction of the Jews; General Motors and its rapid motorization of the German military enabling the conquest of Europe and the capture of Jews everywhere.
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Uncovers the robust use of US tax-exempt, tax-subsidized, and public monies to foment agitation, systematically destabilize the IDF, and finance terrorists in Israel. Black documents that it is actually the highly politicized human rights organizations and NGOs themselves which are financing the flames that make peace in Israel difficult if not impossible.
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The Nazis needed oil. The Arabs wanted the Jews and British out of Iraq. The Mufti of Jerusalem forged a far-ranging alliance with Hitler resulting in the June 1941 Farhud, a Nazi-style pogrom in Baghdad that set the stage for the devastation and expulsion of the Iraqi Jews and ultimately almost a million Jews across the Arab world. The Farhud was the beginning of what became a broad Nazi-Arab alliance in the Holocaust.
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Edwin Black has mined scores of corporate and governmental archives to assemble thousands of previously uncovered and long-forgotten documents and studies into this dramatic story. He traces a continuum of rapacious energy cartels and special interests dating back nearly 5,000 years, from wood to coal to oil, and then to the bicycle and electric battery cartels of the 1890s, which created thousands of electric vehicles that plied American streets a century ago. But those noiseless and clean cars were scuttled by petroleum interests ...
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How did the West get Middle East Oil? The tense chronicle of the international deceit and strong-arm tactics of men, oil companies and government is laid out in a revealing minute-to-minute drama. Massive research supports this unforgettable revelation by a master of corporate investigation author Edwin Black.
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In Banking on Baghdad, New York Times and international bestselling author Edwin Black chronicles the dramatic and tragic history of a land long the center of world commerce and conflict. Tracing the involvement of Western governments and militaries, as well as oil, banking, and other corporate interests, Black pinpoints why today, just as throughout modern history, the world needs Iraq's resources—and remains determined to acquire and protect them. Banking on Baghdad almost painfully documents the many ways Iraq's recent history mirrors its tumultuous past.
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Edwin Black's controversial and bitter-pill crisis plan to rescue America once the oil stops.
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Two Millennial fears haunted most Americans at the turn of the last century: the sense of Armageddon, and the pending Y2K crisis. Both are woven together in this tense and compelling mystic techno-thriller about the final battle between good and evil fought against the race to fix the Millennium Bug.
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The Nazi Census documents the origins of the census in modern Germany, along with the parallel development of IBM machines that helped first collect data on Germans, then specifically on Jews and other minorities. Gotz Aly and Karl Heinz Roth begin by examining the history of statistical technology in Germany, from the Hollerith machine in the 1890s through the development and licensing of IBM punch-card technology.
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IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling shocker with a million copies in print. It details IBM's conscious co-planning and co-organizing of the Holocaust with the Nazis, all micromanaged by its president Thomas J Watson from New York and Paris.
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Internal Combustion audiobook Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives is an explosive, eye-opening expose of the corporate forces that have for more than a century sabotaged the creation of alternative energies and vehicles in order to keep us dependent on oil. There is enough truth in this book to revolutionize our way of life.