Brendan Simms is the author of Unfinest Hour (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), Three Victories and a Defeat, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy and The Longest Afternoon, which was published in 2014. He is Professor of the...

In this volume eminent historians compare German and British statesmen in war, from the Seven Years' War to World War II. The subjects of the biographical essays range from Frederick the Great and William Pitt the Elder, William Pitt the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet...

Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present

In "Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation", Brendan Simms untersucht die komplexe und oft konfliktreiche Beziehung zwischen Großbritannien und Europa über ein Jahrtausend hinweg. Er argumentiert, dass...

"Hitler: A Global Biography" von Brendan Simms bietet eine umfassende Untersuchung von Adolf Hitlers Leben und seiner Ideologie, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf seinem globalen Einfluss liegt. Simms argumentiert, dass Hitlers Handeln und...

A biography of Adolf Hitler parting ways from its acclaimed predecessors by primarily analysing the subject's beliefs instead of a focus on his actions. Proposes Hitler felt threatened by Anglo-American capitalism more than by...