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Hitler: Only the World Was Enough
£16.99
SIMMS, BRENDAN
Product Details
ISBN: 9780141043302
Author: SIMMS, BRENDAN
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020
A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019
A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan Simms
Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows:
- Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism.
- Instead, it was the threat of international capitalism and Anglo-America.
These two fears drove both his anti-semitism and his determination to secure the 'living space' necessary to survive in a world dominated by the British Empire and the United States.
A New Perspective on Hitler's Ideology
Drawing on new sources, Brendan Simms traces the way Hitler's ideology emerged after the First World War:
- The United States and the British Empire were, in his view, models for Germany's own empire, similarly founded on appropriation of land, racism, and violence.
- Hitler's ultimate aim was to create a global future for Germany, believing the country was otherwise doomed to irrelevance, extinction, and subjugation through emigration and foreign influence.
Hitler's Principal Concern
Hitler's principal concern during the resulting cataclysm was not just the clash between:
- German and Jews, or
- German and Slav,
but above all, the clash between Germans and what he called the 'Anglo-Saxons'.
In the end, only dominance of the world would have been enough to achieve Hitler's objectives. It ultimately required a coalition of virtually the entire world to defeat him.
A Groundbreaking Biography
Brendan Simms's new book is the first to fully explain Hitler's beliefs, demonstrating how, as ever, ideas are the ultimate source of the most murderous behaviour.
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