Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Hitler : a global biography / Brendan Simms.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DD247.H5 S53 2019

Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts.

No results match this search term.
Check spelling and try again.

results are loading

0 results found for “keyward

    Book cover

    Overview

    Summary
    "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." -- Publisher's website
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Simms, Brendan, author.
    Published
    New York : Basic Books, 2019
    ©2019
    Locale
    Germany
    Edition
    First US edition
    Contents
    Introduction
    Humiliation. Sketch of the dictator as a young man ; Against a 'world of enemies' ; The 'colonization' of Germany
    Fragmentation. The struggle for Bavaria ; Angle-American power and German impotence ; Regaining control of the Party
    Unification. The American challenge ; Breakthrough ; Making the fewest mistakes
    Mobilization. The 'fairy tale' ; The 'elevation' of the German people ; Guns and butter
    Confrontation. 'Living standards' and 'living space' ; 'England is the motor of opposition to us' ; The "Haves' and the 'Have-Nots'
    Annihilation. Facing West, striking East ; The struggle against the 'Anglo-Saxons' and 'plutocracy' ; The fall of 'Fortress Europe'
    Conclusion.
    Notes
    Originally published in 2019 by Allen Lane in the United Kingdom.
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-631) and index.
    Introduction -- Humiliation. Sketch of the dictator as a young man ; Against a 'world of enemies' ; The 'colonization' of Germany -- Fragmentation. The struggle for Bavaria ; Angle-American power and German impotence ; Regaining control of the Party -- Unification. The American challenge ; Breakthrough ; Making the fewest mistakes -- Mobilization. The 'fairy tale' ; The 'elevation' of the German people ; Guns and butter -- Confrontation. 'Living standards' and 'living space' ; 'England is the motor of opposition to us' ; The "Haves' and the 'Have-Nots' -- Annihilation. Facing West, striking East ; The struggle against the 'Anglo-Saxons' and 'plutocracy' ; The fall of 'Fortress Europe' -- Conclusion.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9780465022373
    0465022375
    Physical Description
    xxv, 668 pages ; 25 cm

    Keywords & Subjects

    Record last modified:
    2019-12-04 14:17:00
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/bib274258

    Additional Resources

    Librarian View

    Download & Licensing

    • Terms of Use
    • This record is not digitized and cannot be downloaded online.

    In-Person Research

    Availability

    Contact Us