Brendan Simms

A riveting account of Pearl Harbor and the five history-making days that followed. This gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These five days transformed much of the world and have shaped our own experience ever since. Simms and Laderman's aim...

A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions. 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' major new biography, Hitler shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but...

The 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 favoured the Americans at Midway, and the conventional wisdom has it that the Americans' lucky streak continued as the war in the Pacific turned against the Japanese....

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...

'Cuts through the noise to give the reader geopolitical clarity' TIM MARSHALL 'Shines powerful light on the state of contemporary geopolitics . . . Profound' ANDREW ROBERTS 'Wide-ranging and provocative' FIONA HILL 'Simms is one of the most knowledgeable and formidable analysts of how the Great Powers will shape the new order' RANA MITTER From an acclaimed historian, a sweeping...