Hitler: A Global Biography
Autor Brendan Simmsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 sep 2019
From
a
prize-winning
historian,
the
definitive
biography
of
Adolph
Hitler
Hitleroffers
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465022373
ISBN-10: 0465022375
Pagini: 800
Greutate: 1 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 0465022375
Pagini: 800
Greutate: 1 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
Notă biografică
Brendan
Simmsis
a
professor
in
the
History
of
International
Relations
and
fellow
at
Peterhouse
College,
Cambridge.
He
is
the
author
of
eight
previous
books,
includingThe
Longest
Afternoon:
The
400
Men
Who
Decided
the
Battle
of
WaterlooandEurope:
The
Struggle
for
Supremacy,
from
1453
to
the
Present,
shortlisted
for
the
Lionel
Gelber
Prize.
He
lives
in
Cambridge,
England.
Recenzii
[Hitler]
challenges
some
of
our
longstanding
ideas
about
the
man
who
ruled
Nazi
Germany
between
1933
and
1945
...
Highly
provocative.
If many Hitler books are scarcely worth reading, this one commands attention through its originality and sheer intelligence ... A thoroughly thought-provoking, stimulating biography which all historians of the Third Reich will have to take seriously.
Casts new light on the dictator ... Crisp, well-written, extensively researched ... A valuable contribution.
[Simms] builds on previous scholarship to make a bold thesis - that Hitler's principal obsession was not communism but rather 'Anglo-America' and global capitalism ... A vigorous, original study that adds to the ongoing scholarship.
A radically new assessment of the Fuhrer's world view and the motivation for his plunging the world into a terminal struggle for survival.
Impressive and intriguing ... By drawing our attention to the centrality of historical emigration to Hitler's racial vision of a Great Germany, Simms adds a new dimension to our understanding of the thinking that drove history's most notorious figure. Crisply written and well-researched, there is much in this book that enlightens and stimulates.
Compelling and original.
Essential reading.
Simms ... challeng[es] much recent scholarship ... A preoccupation with Anglo-American capitalism, he contends, drove the Third Reich's ideology in its formative years, more than the oft-cited obsession with Bolshevism ... He has made sound use of the Bavarian archives.
Hitler: Only The World Was Enoughis modern political history at its very best: thorough, impeccably well researched, and opinionated without descending into histrionics. The Dublin-Cambridge historian writes with authority, flare, style and convincing conviction - consistently favouring thematic analysis over the simple retelling of facts.
If many Hitler books are scarcely worth reading, this one commands attention through its originality and sheer intelligence ... A thoroughly thought-provoking, stimulating biography which all historians of the Third Reich will have to take seriously.
Casts new light on the dictator ... Crisp, well-written, extensively researched ... A valuable contribution.
[Simms] builds on previous scholarship to make a bold thesis - that Hitler's principal obsession was not communism but rather 'Anglo-America' and global capitalism ... A vigorous, original study that adds to the ongoing scholarship.
A radically new assessment of the Fuhrer's world view and the motivation for his plunging the world into a terminal struggle for survival.
Impressive and intriguing ... By drawing our attention to the centrality of historical emigration to Hitler's racial vision of a Great Germany, Simms adds a new dimension to our understanding of the thinking that drove history's most notorious figure. Crisply written and well-researched, there is much in this book that enlightens and stimulates.
Compelling and original.
Essential reading.
Simms ... challeng[es] much recent scholarship ... A preoccupation with Anglo-American capitalism, he contends, drove the Third Reich's ideology in its formative years, more than the oft-cited obsession with Bolshevism ... He has made sound use of the Bavarian archives.
Hitler: Only The World Was Enoughis modern political history at its very best: thorough, impeccably well researched, and opinionated without descending into histrionics. The Dublin-Cambridge historian writes with authority, flare, style and convincing conviction - consistently favouring thematic analysis over the simple retelling of facts.