Background
Brendan Simms was born in 1967 in Dublin, Ireland. He is the son of David and Anngret Simms.
College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
Brendan Simms studied at Trinity College Dublin.
The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Brendan Simms holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge.
Brendan Simms
Brendan Simms
(This book examines Prussia's response to Napoleon and Nap...)
This book examines Prussia's response to Napoleon and Napoleonic expansionism in the years before the crushing defeats of Auerstadt and Jena, a period of German history as untypical as it was dramatic. Events are analyzed at the level of high politics, foreign policy, and the reform of the executive. The book also addresses matters of general theoretical concern such as high politics, geopolitics, and the "primacy of foreign policy." In doing so it goes beyond anything that has been attempted before and presents a comprehensive and nuanced picture of Prussia before 1806.
https://www.amazon.com/Impact-Napoleon-Prussian-Executive-1797-1806/dp/0521893852/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Impact+of+Napoleon%3A+Prussian+High+Politics%2C+Foreign+Policy%2C+and+the+Crisis+of+the+Executive%2C+1797-1806&qid=1606233539&s=books&sr=1-1
1997
(This book attempts to combine geopolitics, modernization ...)
This book attempts to combine geopolitics, modernization theory, and the primacy of foreign policy to provide a fresh perspective on the struggle for mastery in Germany before 1850. Any form of rigid determinism is eschewed; the outcome of this contest was still relatively open in 1780. Nevertheless, the book shows why after the upheavals - domestic and internal - of the revolutionary period and the geopolitical revolution of 1815, Prussia and not Austria was on the verge of winning the struggle for mastery by mid-century. At every decisive stage along the way, it was Prussia rather than Austria or the "Third Germany" which showed itself capable of socio-economic and (partial) political modernization in order to adapt to external pressures and opportunities.
https://www.amazon.com/Struggle-Mastery-1779-1850-European-Perspective/dp/0312213093/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Struggle+for+Mastery%E2%80%99+in+Germany%2C+1779-1850&qid=1606233619&s=books&sr=1-1
1998
(This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the ...)
This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the story of Britain’s extraordinary scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything it had gained. Whilst Britain was an important European power, few would have expected her global preeminence by 1760, but as Brendan Simms shows with great flair and originality, Britain had a crucial card to play. It was the joining of the British crown to Hanover that gave Britain two empires: one scattered around the world and another – the more important of the two - firmly locked into Germany. Having created a new empire Britain then spectacularly lost it, this time because of its chaotic failure to maintain its European alliances.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140289844/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the American presid...)
On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the American presidential election, to the joy of some and the shock of many across the globe. Now that Trump is Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful country on Earth, Americans and non-Americans alike have been left wondering what that means for the world. It has been widely claimed that Trump’s foreign policy views are impulsive, inconsistent, and that they were improvised on the campaign trail. Drawing on interviews from as far back as 1980, the historians Charlie Laderman and Brendan Simms show that this assumption is dangerously false.
https://www.amazon.com/Donald-Trump-Making-World-View-ebook/dp/B01NH9Y1V6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Donald+Trump%3A+The+Making+of+a+Worldview&qid=1606233349&s=books&sr=1-1
2017
(A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the accla...)
A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan Simms 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's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but that of international capitalism and Anglo-America. These two fears drove both his anti-semitism and his determination to secure the 'living space' necessary to survive in a world dominated by the British Empire and the United States. Drawing on new sources, Brendan Simms traces the way in which Hitler's ideology emerged after the First World War. The United States and the British Empire were, in his view, models for Germany's own empire, similarly founded on the appropriation of land, racism, and violence. Hitler's aim was to create a similarly global future for Germany - a country seemingly doomed otherwise not just to irrelevance, but, through emigration and foreign influence, to extinction. His principal concern during the resulting cataclysm was not just what he saw as the clash between German and Jews, or German and Slav, but above all that between Germans and what he called the 'Anglo-Saxons.' In the end only dominance of the world would have been enough to achieve Hitler's objectives, and it ultimately required a coalition of virtually the entire world to defeat him. Brendan Simms's new book is the first to explain Hitler's beliefs fully, demonstrating how, as ever, it is ideas that are the ultimate source of the most murderous behavior.
https://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Only-World-Was-Enough/dp/1846142474/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Hitler%3A+A+Global+Biography&qid=1606233458&s=books&sr=1-2
2019
Brendan Simms was born in 1967 in Dublin, Ireland. He is the son of David and Anngret Simms.
Brendan Simms studied at Trinity College Dublin. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge.
Brendan Simms is a historian of the eighteenth-and nineteenth-centuries. He has written three books on European political history. His first book, The Impact of Napoleon: Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy, and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797-1806, looks at Prussia and the role of diplomacy near the end of that country’s old regime. Simms rejects the traditional theory of a sudden change in Prussian policy after 1797 and, instead, argues that the transition was more fluid. While building his position, Simms examines many assumed facts about Prussian politics.
In his second book. The Struggle for Mastery in Germany, 1779-1850, Simms broadens his topic and covers seventy-one years of German history. The Struggle for Mastery’ in Germany, 1779-1850 looks at the contest for power between Austria, Prussia, and other German states prior to German unification in 1871. With his next book, Simms jumps forward several centuries and shifts his attention to the United Kingdom. Unfinest Hour: How Britain Helped to Destroy Bosnia criticizes decisions made by leaders in Great Britain regarding the Bosnian conflict that ended in 1995. Simms asserts that Britain was too slow to take action against the Serbs, and consequently failed to prevent four hellish years of war in Bosnia.
His other works include Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783 (2007), Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present (2013), The Longest Afternoon, The Four Hundred Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo (2014), Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation (2017), Donald Trump: The Making of a Worldview (2017), Hitler: A Global Biography (Basic Books, 2019).
He is a frequent contributor to print and broadsheet media. He has advised governments and parliaments, and spoken at Westminster, in the European parliament, and at think-tanks in the United Kingdom, the United States, and in many Eurozone countries.
(This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the ...)
2007(A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the accla...)
2019(This book examines Prussia's response to Napoleon and Nap...)
1997(This book attempts to combine geopolitics, modernization ...)
1998(On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the American presid...)
2017Brendan Simms himself was raised in the Catholic faith.
Brendan Simms is a member of the British Irish Association.