From the reviews of The Master Plan:
‘An exceptional piece of work for those with a very deep interest in the intellectual structures of tyranny, in Heinrich Himmler, in how monsters work. Dictators always have theories and always find scholars to prove them. The Master Plan is the detailed history of one such effort, but it sheds abundant light on all of them’
ALAN FURST, author of Dark Star
‘Pringle’s eye for detail means that The Master Plan is rich in bizarre characters, ridiculous theories and colourful anecdotes … Massively researched and engagingly written, The Master Plan is surprisingly disturbing’
Daily Telegraph
‘A gripping account of Nazi perversions of science in support of the myth of Aryanism … The Master Plan provides an awful warning against binding scholarship too closely to the state’
JOHN POLANYI, Nobel Laureate
‘Pringle’s extensive and wide-ranging new research vastly expands our knowledge of this … aspect of Third Reich history. She marshals her material expertly – and tells an intriguing story that grips from the start’
CHRISTOPHER HALE, History Today
‘Heather Pringle’s unpicking of the Ahnenerbe is the fruit of exhaustive research and reads at times like a thriller … She writes vividly and with a passion that underscores the whole book … A major achievement’
Catholic Herald
‘I rate this work alongside Robert Jay Lifton’s The Nazi Doctors’
PETER PADFIELD, author of Himmler: Reichsführer-SS