A biography of Adolf Hitler parting ways from its acclaimed predecessors by primarily analysing the subject's beliefs instead of a focus on his actions. Proposes Hitler felt threatened by Anglo-American capitalism more than by Bolshevism, modelling his plans for Germany on Britain and America's successes, with eventual conquest of the entire western world the only end-goal which could have satisfied him.
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.