Hitler : a global biography / Brendan Simms.
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2019.
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| Edition: | First US edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 668 pages ; 25 cm |
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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.