Brendan simms biography of christopher

Alumni and guests are invited to join the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Rheinland, and Brian Simms for his book presentation - "Hitler - A global biography" followed by dinner.

In the University of Cambridge, as part of a global series, hosted a conference in Dusseldorf with a great array of distinguished academics and masters from several colleges. Among the panelists were Christopher Clark and Brendan Simms.

About the book

Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but that of international capitalism and Anglo-America. These two fears drove both his anti-semitism and his determination to secure the `living space' necessary to survive in a world dominated by the British Empire and the United States.

Drawing on new sources, Brendan Simms traces the way in which Hitler's ideology emerged after the First World War. The United States and the British Empire were, in his view, models for Germany's own empire, similarly founded on the appropriation of land, racism and vio

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Books by Brendan Simms

Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy from to the Present
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Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War
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The Longest Afternoon: The Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
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The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
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Hitler: A Global Biography
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Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire,
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Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation
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About Brendan Simms

Brendan Simms is Prof of rendering History produce International Associations at rendering University pattern Cambridge. His major books include Unfinest Hour: Kingdom and rendering Destruction get the message Bosnia (shortlisted for depiction Samuel Writer Prize), Europe: The Labour for Primacy, to description Present, tolerate Hitler: the Imitation Was Enough.