| Hitler: A Global Biography Contributor(s): Simms, Brendan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465022375 ISBN-13: 9780465022373 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $36.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State - History | Europe - Germany - History | Military - World War Ii |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2019028454 |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 6.4" W x 9.8" (2.20 lbs) 704 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Japanese - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Baltic - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that the dictator's main strategic enemy, from the start of his political career in the 1920s, was not communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism and the United States. Whereas most historians have argued that Hitler underestimated the American threat, Simms shows that Hitler embarked on a preemptive war with the United States precisely because he considered it such a potent adversary. The war against the Jews was driven both by his anxiety about combatting the supposed forces of international plutocracy and by a broader desire to maintain the domestic cohesion he thought necessary for survival on the international scene. A powerfully argued and utterly definitive account of a murderous tyrant we thought we understood, Hitler is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the origins and outcomes of the Second World War. |