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“brendan simms”

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  • The Return of the Great Powers

    by Brendan Simms ...
    From an acclaimed historian, a sweeping study of the past, present, and future of the Great Powers, revealing the new rules of global leadership.“An exceedingly timely and very compelling book.” ―General David Petraeus, former director of the CIAFrom the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Cold War, global history was defined by rivalries between Great Powers. In the West, this meant the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hitler

    A Global Biography

    by Brendan Simms ...
    From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler.Hitler offers 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 communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism and the United States. Whereas most historians have argued that Hitler underestimated the American ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Europe

    The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present

    by Brendan Simms ...
    With "verve and panache," this magisterial history of Europe since 1453 shows how struggles over the heart of the continent have shaped the world we live in today (The Economist).Whoever controls the core of Europe controls the entire continent, and whoever controls Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings, conquerors, presidents, and dictators have set ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The New Makers of Modern Strategy

    From the Ancient World to the Digital Age

    by John Bew, Lawrence Freedman, Walter Russell Mead, Toshi Yoshihara, Matthew Kroenig, Hew Strachan, John H. Maurer, Michael Cotey Morgan, James Lacey, Eric Helleiner, Jonathan Kirshner, Iskander Rehman, Matt J. Schumann, Michael V. Leggiere, Charles Edel, Kori Schake, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Sarah C. M. Paine, Priya Satia, Margaret MacMillan, Williamson Murray, Robert Kagan, Tami Biddle, Brendan Simms, Francis Gavin, Daniel Marston, Guy Laron, Tanvi Madan, Sergey Radchenko, Thomas G. Mahnken, Christopher J. Griffin, Dmitry Adamsky, Carter Malkasian, Ahmed S. Hashim, Elizabeth Economy, Seth G. Jones, Sue Mi Terry, Jason K. Stearns, Joshua Rovner, Thomas Rid, John Lewis Gaddis, Eric Edelman, Andrew Ehrhardt, Mark Moyar, Antulio Echevarria ...
    The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Three Victories and a Defeat

    The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire

    by Brendan Simms ...
    In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain's key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Britain's true strength lay with the German aristocrats who ruled it at the time. The House of Hanover superbly managed a complex series of European alliances ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Hitler's American Gamble

    Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War

    by 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 StatesBy early December 1941, war had changed much of the world beyond recognition. Nazi Germany occupied most of the European continent, while in Asia, the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned China into a battleground. But these conflicts were ... Read more

    Was $19.99 USD Now $16.99 USD

  • The Silver Waterfall

    How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway

    by Brendan Simms, Steven McGregor ...
    Eighty years after the stunning and decisive battle, a revelatory new history of MidwayThe Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so much so that it was quickly described as “a miracle.” Yet fortune favored the Americans at Midway, and the conventional wisdom has it that the Americans’ lucky streak continued as the war ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Towards A Westphalia for the Middle East

    by Patrick Milton, Michael Axworthy, Brendan Simms ...
    It was the original forever war, which went on interminably, fuelled by religious fanaticism, personal ambition, fear of hegemony, and communal suspicion. It dragged in all the neighbouring powers. It was punctuated by repeated failed ceasefires. It inflicted suffering beyond belief and generated waves of refugees. No, this is not Syria today, but the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), which turned ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Harfleur to Hamburg

    Five Centuries of English and British Violence in Europe

    Edited by DJB Trim, Brendan Simms ...
    Britain has historically been seen as an upholder of international norms, at least in its relations with western powers. This has often been contrasted with the violence perpetrated in colonial contexts on other continents. What is often missed, however, is the extent to which the state with its capital in London--first England, then Great Britain--inflicted extreme violence on its European ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Longest Afternoon

    The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo

    by Brendan Simms ...
    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 continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000

    How Strategic Concerns Shaped Modern Britain

    by 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, state, public sphere, and economy were a response to foreign policy issues from the Restoration to the rise of New Labour. ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

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    The Return of the Great Powers

    by Brendan Simms ...
    Narrated by Mike Cooper ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 14 min

    From an acclaimed historian, a sweeping study of the past, present, and future of the Great Powers, revealing the new rules of global leadership.From the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Cold War, global history was defined by rivalries between Great Powers. In the West, this meant the struggle for supremacy in Europe and the Americas, while in the East, it encompassed those vying for ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook