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Brendan Simms
Brendan Simms is a professor in the history of international relations and fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. He is the author of eight previous books, including Hitler’s American Gamble and Europe. He lives in Cambridge, UK.
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The Silver Waterfall
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…
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The Longest Afternoon
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…
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Three Victories and a Defeat
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…
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Europe
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…