Brendan Simms
Brendan Peter Simms (born September 3, 1967 ) is an Irish historian and professor of the history of international relations at the Center of International Studies at Cambridge University . There he deals with the history of European foreign policy. In addition to the history of Europe, especially Germany in the European context, Simms' research deals with Anglo-American history.
In his 2001 book Unfinest Hour. Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia , he criticizes British policy in the Bosnian War , which he accuses of taking sides in favor of the Serbian aggressors.
Brendan Simms is President of the Henry Jackson Society and Chairman and Co-Founder of the Project for Democratic Union .
In 2014, Simms published an essay on Hitler's political biography , which Othmar Plöckinger , Thomas Weber and Sven Felix Kellerhoff received with reservations.
Fonts
- Anglo-Prussian relations, 1804-1806: the Napoleonic threat. University of Cambridge, 1992.
- The Struggle for Mastery in Germany, 1779-1850. Palgrave MacMillan, 1998, ISBN 978-0-312-21310-7 .
- Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia. Penguin, 2001, ISBN 978-0-14-193767-0 .
- Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783. Penguin, 2008, ISBN 978-0-14-028984-8 .
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Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present. Allen Lane, 2013, ISBN 978-0-14-103717-2 .
- Translation: Struggle for Supremacy: A German History of Europe 1453 to Today. Translated from the English by Klaus-Dieter Schmidt. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-421-04397-9 .
- Humanitarian Intervention: A History. Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-67332-8
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The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo. Penguin, 2014, ISBN 978-0-241-00460-9 .
- Translation: The longest afternoon: 400 Germans, Napoleon and the decision of Waterloo. Translated from the English by Wiebke Meier. Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-67003-9 .
- Against a 'world of enemies': the impact of the First World War on the development of Hitler's ideology , in: International Affairs , March 2014, pp. 317–336 doi: 10.1111 / 1468-2346.12111
- with Charlie Laderman: We could have been warned. Donald Trump's view of the world , DVA, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-421-04798-4 .
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Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation . Penguin, 2017, ISBN 978-0-14-198390-5 .
- The British and Europe. A thousand years of conflict and cooperation . Translation by Klaus-Dieter Schmidt. DVA, 2019, ISBN 978-3-421-04842-4 .
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Hitler: Only the World Was Enough . Allen Lane, 2019, ISBN 978-1-84614-247-5 .
- Hitler: A Global Biography . Translation by Klaus-Dieter Schmidt. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-421-04664-2 .
Web links
- Information on the website of the university
- Short biography. www.debretts.com, accessed September 19, 2014 .
- "My point of view is indeed 'germanocentric'". Interview with Prof. Dr. Brendan Simms about his book “Kampf um Vorherrschaft” January 2015 at LISA
- "It is important to me to show the real war that Hitler waged" . Interview between Prof. Dr. Brendan Simms and the Spiegel, March 2020.
- "Hitler's main focus was on the West" . Conversation between Prof. Dr. Brendan Simms and René Nehring, May 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Łączyński: Brendan Simms: German dilemma at the heart of Europe. In: The press . September 21, 2013, accessed September 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Brendan Simms: The Struggle for Supremacy. A German History of Europe from 1453 to Today . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-421-04397-9 , cover (English: Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present . 2013. Translated by Klaus-Dieter Schmidt).
- ↑ Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia , Review by Philip Gordon, Foreign Affairs, September / October 2002
- ^ The Intelligentsia and the Destruction of Bosnia , Džemal Sokolović, University of Bergen, kakanien – revisited, May 26, 2004
- ^ Henry Jackson Society. Professional staff. henryjacksonsociety.org, August 18, 2014, accessed September 19, 2014 .
- ^ Project for Democratic Union. Team. www.democraticunion.eu, October 2013, accessed on September 19, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : Did Hitler hate "the" West more and earlier than "the" Jews? , in: Die Welt , March 15, 2014, p. 23
- ^ Review by Gustav Seibt in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
- ↑ Richard Herzinger: Does the whole world history revolve around Germany? In: welt.de . September 26, 2014, accessed on September 26, 2014 (report from the 2014 book presentation).
- ↑ And Germania shouted “Viktoria!”. In: FAZ . November 28, 2014, p. 10.
- ↑ https://www.bonaventura.blog/2020/brendan-simms-hitler/ Reception accessed on April 19, 2020
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Simms, Brendan |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simms, Brendan Peter (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd September 1967 |