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.

'A superb little book that is micro-history at its best' Washington Post 'The brevity of this remarkable book belies the amount of work that went into it. One can only marvel at how well Professor Simms has gone through the original sources - the surviving journals, reminiscences and letters of the individual combatants - to produce a coherent and gripping narrative' Nick Lezard, Guardian The true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated Napoleon - from Brendan Simms, acclaimed author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy Europe had been at war for over twenty years. After a...

Kniha cambridgeského historika Brendana Simmse je široce založenou a erudovanou studií zabývající se vývojem mocenského zápasu o Evropu v celém novověku od pádu Cařihradu do současnosti.
Látka je rozvržena do osmi kapitol odpovídajících periodizaci boje o nadvládu nad starým kontinentem a neustálým proměnám mocenských konstelací: Impéria (1453–1648), Nástupnictví (1649–1755), Revoluce (1756–1813), Osamostatňování (1814–1866), Sjednocování (1876–1916), Utopie (1917–1944), Rozdělování (1945–1973), Demokracie (1974–2011).
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