Brendan Simms: 12 books

Book cover of Donald Trump: The Making of a World View
by Charlie Laderman, Brendan Simms
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018

"When Donald Trump enters the White House, he will do so with a worldview that has been constantly advanced and relatively consistently articulated in countless statements over the past three decades. Don't say he didn't warn you." On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the American...
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Kampf um Vorherrschaft

Eine deutsche Geschichte Europas 1453 bis heute

by Brendan Simms
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2014

500 Jahre Machtkämpfe um die Mitte Europas In einem großen, umfassenden Wurf erzählt Brendan Simms die Geschichte Europas seit dem 15. Jahrhundert. Er beschreibt sie als Geschichte ständig wechselnder Machtverhältnisse und Rivalitäten, des Kampfs der großen und kleinen europäischen...
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Europe

The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present

by Brendan Simms
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe can control the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors, presidents and dictators have set their...
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The Longest Afternoon

The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo

by Brendan Simms
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015

In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe-Napoleon's forces on one...
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Three Victories and a Defeat

The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire

by Brendan Simms
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008

In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain's key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Britain's true strength lay with the German aristocrats...
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Europa am Abgrund

Plädoyer für die Vereinigten Staaten von Europa

by Brendan Simms, Benjamin Zeeb
Language: German
Release Date: March 15, 2016

„Wir müssen eine Art Vereinigte Staaten von Europa errichten.“ Winston Churchill, 1946 Der bekannte irische Historiker Brendan Simms und der Publizist Benjamin Zeeb bieten nicht nur eine brillante Diagnose der gegenwärtigen europäischen Krise, sondern auch eine so vernünftige wie radikale...
Book cover of Die Briten und Europa

Die Briten und Europa

Tausend Jahre Konflikt und Kooperation

by Brendan Simms
Language: German
Release Date: March 25, 2019

Die Briten und wir: Warum der Brexit nicht das Ende der britisch-europäischen Partnerschaft sein wird Europa hat in der Geschichte Großbritanniens stets eine wichtige Rolle gespielt. Seit Jahrhunderten mischen sich die Briten mit Lust in die Geschicke der europäischen Nachbarstaaten ein...
Book cover of Wir hätten gewarnt sein können

Wir hätten gewarnt sein können

Donald Trumps Sicht auf die Welt

by Brendan Simms, Charlie Laderman
Language: German
Release Date: April 25, 2017

Wie unberechenbar ist Donald Trump wirklich? Was wir von dem US-Präsidenten zu erwarten haben Donald Trump erscheint vielen als Politiker, der das Handwerk nicht beherrscht und dessen politische Äußerungen impulsiv und widersprüchlich sind. Doch damit unterliegen wir einem Trugschluss....
Book cover of Der längste Nachmittag

Der längste Nachmittag

400 Deutsche, Napoleon und die Entscheidung von Waterloo

by Brendan Simms
Language: German
Release Date: October 17, 2014

«Der längste Nachmittag» erzählt in einer dichten Beschreibung von einer Schlacht in der Schlacht von Waterloo: der Verteidigung des Meierhofs La Haye Sainte durch die King’s German Legion gegen die anstürmenden Truppen Napoleons. Die Verteidigung misslang zwar letztlich, aber der erreichte...
Book cover of Towards A Westphalia for the Middle East
by Patrick Milton, Michael Axworthy, Brendan Simms
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

It was the original forever war, which went on interminably, fuelled by religious fanaticism, personal ambition, fear of hegemony, and communal suspicion. It dragged in all the neighbouring powers. It was punctuated by repeated failed ceasefires. It inflicted suffering beyond belief and generated...
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Hitler

A Global Biography

by Brendan Simms
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019

From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that the dictator's main strategic enemy, from the start of his political career in the 1920s, was not communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism...
Book cover of The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000

The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000

How Strategic Concerns Shaped Modern Britain

by William Mulligan, Brendan Simms
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010

External challenges, strategic threats, and war have shaped the course of modern British history. This volume examines how Britain mobilized to meet these challenges and how developments in the constitution, state, public sphere, and economy were a response to foreign policy issues from the Restoration to the rise of New Labour.
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