Брендан Симмс — новинки

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020
A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019
A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan Simms
Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as wi

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 threat, Simms shows that Hitler embarked on a preemptive war with the United States precisely because he considered it such a potent adversary. The war against the Jews was driven both by his anxiety about combatting the supposed forces of international plutocracy and by a broader desire to maintain the domestic cohesion he thought necessary for survival on the international scene.

A powerfully argued and utterly definitive account of a murderous tyrant we thought we understood, Hitler is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the origins and outcomes of the Second World War.

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 1920's, was not communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism and the United States. Whereas, most historians have argued that Hitler underestimated the American threat, Simms shows that Hitler embarked on a preemptive war with the United States precisely because he considered it such a potent adversary. The war against the Jews was driven both by his anxiety about combating the supposed forces of international plutocracy and by a broader desire to maintain the domestic cohesion he thought necessary for survival on the international scene.

A powerfully argued and utterly definitive account of a murderous tyrant we thought we understood, 'Hitler' is essential listening and/or reading for anyone seeking to understand the origins and outcomes of the Second World War.

Европа, на землях которой шла многовековая борьба за господство… Борьба оружия и дипломатии, культурного, религиозного, политического и экономического влияния… Какие же страны одерживали верх в этой борьбе? А какие были отброшены назад? Каким государствам удалось подняться после разрушительных поражений? А какие так и остались на обочине истории? На эти и другие вопросы отвечает в своей книге Брендан Симмс — известный британский история, профессор, директор Центра международных исследований Кембриджского университета.

Европа, на землях которой шла многовековая борьба за господство… Борьба оружия и дипломатии, культурного, религиозного, политического и экономического влияния… Какие же страны одерживали верх в этой борьбе? А какие были отброшены назад? Каким государствам удалось подняться после разрушительных поражений? А какие так и остались на обочине истории? На эти и другие вопросы отвечает в своей книге Брендан Симмс - известный британский история, профессор, директор Центра международных исследований Кембриджского университета

Brendan Simms's formidable, game-changing history of Europe
In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's constantly shifting geopolitics and the peculiar circumstances that have made it both so impossible to dominate, but also so dynamic and ferocious. It is the story of a group of highly competitive and mutually suspicious dynasties, but also of a continent uniquely prone to interference from 'semi-detached' elements, such as Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Britain and (just as centrally to Simms's argument) the United States.

If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe controls the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors, presidents and dictators have set their sights on the European heartland, desperate to seize this pivotal area…

A polemical account of Britain's disruptive and damaging role in the break-up of Yugoslavia. For most of 1992-1995, Britain stood aside while an internationally recognised state was attacked by externally-sponsored rebels bent on a campaign of territorial aggression and ethnic cleansing. It was her unfinest hour since 1938. Based on interviews with many of the…