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    Britain’s Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation

    Brendan Simms

    The essential book for understanding the history of Britain’s place in Europe, from the Middle Ages to the present day

    Britain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in…

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    Harfleur to Hamburg

    From the Hundred Years War to the Second World War, a definitive volume exploring military violence waged across the British Isles and the European continent.

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    From the Hundred Years War to the Second World War, a definitive volume exploring military violence waged across the British Isles and the European continent.

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    Europe

    Brendan Simms

    A sweeping history of Europe since 1453, showing how the struggle over the continent’s rich central territory has shaped the world we live in today.

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    Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire

    Brendan Simms

    An extraordinary reinterpretation of British and American history, Three Victories and a Defeat is a masterwork by a rising star of the historical profession

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    The Longest Afternoon

    Brendan Simms

    Originally published: London, England: Allen Lane, 2014.

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    Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783

    Brendan Simms

    Tells the story of Britain’s scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything it had gained.

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    Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

    Brendan Simms

    A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions

    Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important…

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    Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present

    Brendan Simms

    Tells the story of a group of highly competitive and mutually suspicious dynasties, and also of a continent uniquely prone to interference from ‘semi-detached’ elements, such as Russia, the Ottoman…

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    The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo

    Brendan Simms

    At the small Belgian village of Waterloo two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe. This book tells their story and recaptures the fear…

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    Hitler: A Global Biography

    Brendan Simms

    A prize-winning historian presents 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…

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    The Impact of Napoleon: Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797-1806

    Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge)

    This book examines Prussia’s response to Napoleon and Napoleonic expansionism in the years before the crushing defeats of Auerstadt and Jena, a period of German history as untypical as it…

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    The Impact of Napoleon: Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797-1806

    Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge)

    This book examines Prussia’s response to Napoleon and Napoleonic expansionism in the years before the crushing defeats of Auerstadt and Jena, a period of German history as untypical as it…

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    Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War

    Brendan Simms,Charlie Laderman

    ‘History at its scintillating best … hard-hitting, revelatory and superbly researched’ Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny

    ‘A rare achievement … sure to become an instant classic’ John…

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    Hitler: A Global Biography

    Brendan Simms

    A prize-winning historian presents 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…

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    Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War

    Brendan Simms,Charlie Laderman

    A riveting account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States

    By early December 1941, war…

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    Donald Trump: The Making of a World View

    Brendan Simms,Charlie Laderman

    Essential account of the making of Donald Trump’s foreign policy

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    Hitler: A Global Biography

    Brendan Simms

    A prize-winning historian presents 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…

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    The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660-2000: How Strategic Concerns Shaped Modern Britain

    William Mulligan,Brendan Simms

    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…

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    The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660-2000: How Strategic Concerns Shaped Modern Britain

    William Mulligan,Brendan Simms

    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…

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    The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway

    Brendan Simms,Steven McGregor

    Eighty years after the stunning and decisive battle, a revelatory new history of Midway

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    Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War

    Brendan Simms,Charlie Laderman

    An absorbing and visceral (New York Times) account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States

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    The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714-1837

    For more than 120 years Great Britain was linked to the German Electorate, later Kingdom, of Hanover through Personal Union. This volume offered the first systematic history of this ‘Hanoverian…

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    Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century

    This volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the forces which shaped politics and culture from 1680 to 1840 in Germany, France and Great…

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    The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714-1837

    For more than 120 years Great Britain was linked to the German Electorate, later Kingdom, of Hanover through Personal Union. This volume offered the first systematic history of this ‘Hanoverian…

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    Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century

    This volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the forces which shaped politics and culture from 1680 to 1840 in Germany, France and Great…

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    Humanitarian Intervention: A History

    This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention examines responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the emergence of the international state system and international law in the late…

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    Humanitarian Intervention: A History

    This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention examines responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the emergence of the international state system and international law in the late…

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    The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway

    Brendan Simms,Steven McGregor

    Eighty years after the stunning and decisive battle, a revelatory new history of Midway

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    Die Ruckkehr Der Grossen Manner: Staatsmanner Im Krieg. Ein Deutsch-Britischer Vergleich 1740-1945

    In diesem Band werden von namhaften Historikern deutsche und britische Staatsmanner im Krieg vom Siebenjahrigen Krieg bis zum zweiten Weltkrieg verglichen. Die biographischen Beitrage reichen von Friedrich dem Grossen und…

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    Brendan the Navigator: Exploring the Ancient World

    George Otto Simms

    Volcanoes, icebergs, sea-monsters, strange beings - all these play a part in this ancient adventure story. Simms unravels the mysteries and wonders of Brendan’s travels and explains why and how…

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    Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East

    Patrick Milton (Freie Universitat Berlin),Senior Lecturer Michael Axworthy (University of Exeter),Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge)

    Drawing lessons from the Treaty of Westphalia, the authors offer fresh thinking on how to treat the legacies of the post-Ottoman state system.

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