Senior Research Fellow Karina Urbach (Visitor Historical Studies Institute for Advanced Study Princeton), Brendan Simms
In diesem Band werden von namhaften Historikern deutsche und britische Staatsmanner im Krieg vom Siebenjahrigen Krieg bis zum zweiten Weltkrieg verglichen. Die biographischen Beitrage reichen von Friedrich dem Groen und William Pitt dem Alteren, William Pitt dem Jungeren und Joseph II., William Gladstone und Bismarck, David George und Wilhelm II. bis zu Churchill und Hitler. Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten in der Kriegsfuhrung sowie Bezuge zur aktuellen politischen Lage werden eindrucksvoll dargestellt. Damit liefert der Band wichtige Ergebnisse, die weitere Forschungen anregen...
In diesem Band werden von namhaften Historikern deutsche und britische Staatsmanner im Krieg vom Siebenjahrigen Krieg bis zum zweiten Weltkrieg ver...
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.
Brendan Simms's formidable, game-changing history of Europe In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's...
In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe--Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington on the other. With so much at stake, neither commander could have predicted that the battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, a crucial...
In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the ...
'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...
'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...
Přestože Adolf Hitler patří k nejlépe prostudovaným postavám historie, v tom nejdůležitějším, co si myslíme, že o něm víme, se mýlíme. Jak vysvětluje Brendan Simms, Hitler se navzdory všeobecně rozšířenému přesvědčení neobával ani tolik bolševismu, jako hrozby mezinárodního kapitalismu a moci angloamerického světa. Z těchto obav pak pramenil jeho antisemitismus i odhodlání zabezpečit Němcům životní prostor nezbytný pro přežití ve světě ovládaném Britským impériem a Spojenými státy. Brendan Simms nám s odkazem na nové prameny...
Přestože Adolf Hitler patří k nejlépe prostudovaným postavám historie, v tom nejdůležitějším, co si myslíme, že o něm víme, se mýl...
