- Published: 17 November 2020
- ISBN: 9780141043302
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 704
- RRP: $38.00
Hitler
Only the World Was Enough
- Published: 17 November 2020
- ISBN: 9780141043302
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 704
- RRP: $38.00
[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
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
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
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