Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present

Half a millennium of European warfare brilliantly retold by a masterly historian

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 ferocious. It is the story of a group of highly competitive and mutually suspicious dynasties.