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Hitler: A Global Biography

byBrendan Simms

Hitler is Brendan Simms's biographical portrait of a Global Biography. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Together, these elements make Hitler an accessible guide to the subject and the questions it continues to raise. The approach makes a specialized subject understandable without stripping away its tensions or ambiguity.

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

668

ISBN

9780465022373