Hitler

[Hitler] challenges some of our longstanding ideas about the man who ruled Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 … Highly provocative. – Robert Gerwarth * Financial Times *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. – Richard Overy * Irish Times *Casts new light on the dictator … Crisp, well-written, extensively researched … A valuable contribution. – Simon Heffer * Daily Telegraph *[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. * Kirkus *A radically new assessment of the Fuhrer’s world view and the motivation for his plunging the world into a terminal struggle for survival. * Daily Mail *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. * The Interpreter *Compelling and original. – Christopher Clark * London Review of Books *Essential reading. – Christopher Bray * The Tablet *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. * The Observer *Hitler: Only The World Was Enough is 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. – JP O’Malley * Irish Independent *

Brendan Simms is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. His major books include Unfinest Hour- Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize) and Europe- The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present, which was published in 2013 to extraordinary reviews.