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Britain's Europe A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms
Category: History
Britain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in Europe's history. It has invaded and been invaded, changed sides, stood aloof, acted with both brazen cynicism and the cloudiest idealism. Every century troops from the British isles have marched across the mainland in pursuit of a great com ...Show more
Britain's Europe : A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms
Category: History
'Dazzling ...a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other' Prospect Magazine 'Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging ...this is essentially a brief history of the UK but a deliciously different one' Literary Review Britain has always had a ...Show more
Donald Trump: The Making of a World View by Brendan Simms
Category: Politics and Current Affairs
On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the American presidential election, to the surprise of many across the globe. Now that Trump is Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful country on earth, Americans and non-Americans alike have been left wondering what this will mean for the world. It has been claime ...Show more
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present by Brendan Simms
Category: History
Half a millennium of European warfare brilliantly retold by masterly historian Brendan Simms. At the heart of Europe's history lies a puzzle. In most of the world humankind has created enormous political frameworks, whether ancient (such as China) or modern (such as the United States). Sprawling empires ...Show more
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present by Brendan Simms
Category: History
This is Brendan Simms' formidable, game-changing history of Europe. In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's constantly shifting geopolitics and the peculiar circumstances that have made it both so impossible to dominate, but also so dynamic and ferociou ...Show more
Hitler - Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms
Category: History
A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan Simms Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as wid ...Show more
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms
Category: History
Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but that of international capitalism and Anglo- ...Show more
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War by Brendan Simms, Charles Laderman
Category: History
A riveting account of Pearl Harbor and the five history-making days that followedThis gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These five days transformed much ...Show more
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War by Brendan Simms, Charles Laderman
Category: History
'A rare achievement ... sure to become an instant classic' John Lewis Gaddis, Yale UniversityThis gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These five days trans ...Show more
The Longest Afternoon by Brendan Simms
Category: History
From the prizewinning author of Europe, a riveting account of the heroic Second Light Battalion, which held the line at Waterloo, defeating Napoleon and changing the course of history. In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted contin ...Show more
The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo by Brendan Simms
Category: History
The true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated Napoleon - from Brendan Simms, acclaimed author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy. Europe had been at war for over twenty years. After a short respite in exile, Napoleon had returned to France and threatened another generation of fi ...Show more
The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo by Brendan Simms
Category: History
The true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated Napoleon - from Brendan Simms, acclaimed author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy Europe had been at war for over twenty years. After a short respite in exile, Napoleon had returned to France and threatened another generation of fig ...Show more