Hitler: A Global Biography

In his new biography of Adolf Hitler titled Hitler: A Global Biography, Professor Brendan Simms of the University of Cambridge argues that contrary to past accounts, Hitler was driven by a desire to confront the United States and capitalism more broadly. Dr Dina Gusejnova of the LSE will comment on the talk.

Prof. Brendan Simms is a Professor in History of European International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Unfinest Hour (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), Three Victories and a Defeat, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, and Britain’s Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation.

Dr Dina Gusejnova is Assistant Professor in International History at LSE. Her research interests centre on modern European political, intellectual and cultural history of transitional periods, especially the revolutions of 1918-20 and the two World Wars. Her works include European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957 and Cosmopolitanism in Conflict: Imperial Encounters from the Seven Years' War to the Cold War .