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 diesem Band werden von namhaften Historikern deutsche und britische Staatsmänner im Krieg vom Siebenjährigen Krieg bis zum zweiten Weltkrieg verglichen. Die biographischen Beiträge reichen von Friedrich dem Großen und William Pitt dem...

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...

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...