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2026
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From an acclaimed historian, a sweeping study of the past, present, and future of the Great Powers, revealing the new rules of global leadership.“An exceedingly timely and very compelling book.” ―General David Petraeus, former director of the CIAFrom the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Cold War, global history was defined by rivalries between Great Powers. In the West, this meant the struggle for supremacy in Europe and the America...
Hitler
A Global Biography
2019
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From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler.Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that the dictator's main strategic enemy, from the start of his political career in the 1920s, was not communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism and the United States. Whereas most historians have argued that Hitler underestimated the American threat, Simms shows that Hitler embarked on a preemptive war w...
Europe
The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present
2013
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With "verve and panache," this magisterial history of Europe since 1453 shows how struggles over the heart of the continent have shaped the world we live in today (The Economist).Whoever controls the core of Europe controls the entire continent, and whoever controls Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings, conquerors, presidents, and dictators have set their sights on the European heartland, desperate to seize ...
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Hitler's American Gamble
Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War
2021
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An “absorbing” and “visceral” (New York Times) account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United StatesBy early December 1941, war had changed much of the world beyond recognition. Nazi Germany occupied most of the European continent, while in Asia, the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned China into a battleground. But these conflicts were not yet inextricably linke...
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The New Makers of Modern Strategy
From the Ancient World to the Digital Age
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- John BewLawrence FreedmanWalter Russell MeadToshi YoshiharaMatthew KroenigHew StrachanJohn H. MaurerMichael Cotey MorganJames LaceyEric HelleinerJonathan KirshnerIskander RehmanMatt J. SchumannMichael V. LeggiereCharles EdelKori SchakeWayne Wei-siang HsiehSarah C. M. PainePriya SatiaMargaret MacMillanWilliamson MurrayRobert KaganTami BiddleBrendan SimmsFrancis GavinDaniel MarstonGuy LaronTanvi MadanSergey RadchenkoThomas G. MahnkenChristopher J. GriffinDmitry AdamskyCarter MalkasianAhmed S. HashimElizabeth EconomySeth G. JonesSue Mi TerryJason K. StearnsJoshua RovnerThomas RidJohn Lewis GaddisEric EdelmanAndrew EhrhardtMark MoyarAntulio Echevarria
2023
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The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from antiquity to...
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Three Victories and a Defeat
The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire
2008
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In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain's key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Britain's true strength lay with the German aristocrats who ruled it at the time. The House of Hanover superbly managed a complex series of European alliances that enabled Britain to keep the continental balance of power in check while dramati...
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The Silver Waterfall
How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
2022
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Eighty years after the stunning and decisive battle, a revelatory new history of MidwayThe Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so much so that it was quickly described as “a miracle.” Yet fortune favored the Americans at Midway, and the conventional wisdom has it that the Americans’ lucky streak continued as the war in the Pacific turned against the Japanese. This new history demonstra...
2019
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It was the original forever war, which went on interminably, fuelled by religious fanaticism, personal ambition, fear of hegemony, and communal suspicion. It dragged in all the neighbouring powers. It was punctuated by repeated failed ceasefires. It inflicted suffering beyond belief and generated waves of refugees. No, this is not Syria today, but the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), which turned Germany and much of central Europe into a disaster zone. The Thirty Years' War is often cited as a...
$35.09 USD
Harfleur to Hamburg
Five Centuries of English and British Violence in Europe
2024
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Britain has historically been seen as an upholder of international norms, at least in its relations with western powers. This has often been contrasted with the violence perpetrated in colonial contexts on other continents. What is often missed, however, is the extent to which the state with its capital in London--first England, then Great Britain--inflicted extreme violence on its European neighbors, even when still using the rhetoric of neighborliness and friendship. This book comprises ...
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The Longest Afternoon
The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
2015
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From the prizewinning author of Europe, a riveting account of the heroic Second Light Battalion, which held the line at Waterloo, defeating Napoleon and changing the course of history.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-Na...
The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660–2000
How Strategic Concerns Shaped Modern Britain
2010
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External challenges, strategic threats, and war have shaped the course of modern British history. This volume examines how Britain mobilized to meet these challenges and how developments in the constitution, state, public sphere, and economy were a response to foreign policy issues from the Restoration to the rise of New Labour.
$134.09 USD
Humanitarian Intervention
A History
2011
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The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention examines responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the emergence of the international state system and international law in the late sixteenth century, to the end of the twentieth century. Leading scholars show how opposition to tyranny and to religious persecution evolved from ...
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