Brendan Simms

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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 .
  • 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
  • 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 .
  • 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 .
  • 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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Łączyński: Brendan Simms: German dilemma at the heart of Europe. In: The press . September 21, 2013, accessed September 19, 2014 .
  2. ↑ 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).
  3. ↑ Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia , Review by Philip Gordon, Foreign Affairs, September / October 2002
  4. ^ The Intelligentsia and the Destruction of Bosnia , Džemal Sokolović, University of Bergen, kakanien – revisited, May 26, 2004
  5. ^ Henry Jackson Society. Professional staff. henryjacksonsociety.org, August 18, 2014, accessed September 19, 2014 .
  6. ^ Project for Democratic Union. Team. www.democraticunion.eu, October 2013, accessed on September 19, 2014 (English).
  7. ↑ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : Did Hitler hate "the" West more and earlier than "the" Jews? , in: Die Welt , March 15, 2014, p. 23
  8. ^ Review by Gustav Seibt in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  9. ↑ 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).
  10. ↑ And Germania shouted “Viktoria!”. In: FAZ . November 28, 2014, p. 10.
  11. ↑ https://www.bonaventura.blog/2020/brendan-simms-hitler/ Reception accessed on April 19, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Simms, Brendan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simms, Brendan Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish historian
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1967