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 							Publisher: Basic Books (April 30, 2013)
  Language: English
  ISBN-10: 0465013333
 
ISBN-13: 978-0465013333
  
  If there is a fundamental
truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe controls the entire continent, and whoever
controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors,
presidents and dictators have set their sights on the European heartland, desperate to seize this pivotal area or at
least prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. From Charles V and Napoleon to Bismarck and Cromwell, from Hitler
and Stalin to Roosevelt and Gorbachev, nearly all the key power players of modern history have staked their titanic
visions on this vital swath of land. 
  
  In Europe, prizewinning historian Brendan Simms presents an
authoritative account of the past half-millennium of European history, demonstrating how the battle for mastery there
has shaped the modern world. Beginning in 1453, when the collapse of the Byzantine Empire laid Europe open to Ottoman
incursion and prompted the dramatic expansion of the Holy Roman Empire, Simms leads readers through the epic struggle
for the heart of Europe. Stretching from the Low Countries through Germany and into the North Italian plain, this
relatively compact zone has historically been the richest and most productive on earth. For hundreds of years, its
crucial strategic importance stoked a seemingly unending series of conflicts, from the English Civil War to the French
Revolution to the appalling world wars of the 20th century. But when Europe is in harmony, Simms shows, the entire world
benefits—a lesson that current leaders would do well to remember. 
  
  A bold and compelling work by a
renowned scholar, Europe integrates religion, politics, military strategy, and international relations to show how
history—and Western civilization itself—was forged in the crucible of Europe
  
  Review
 
Wall Street Journal
  “Prodigious….If postmodern scholarship has Ranke spinning in his grave, Mr.
Simms’s book will give his weary soul some rest…. This is the history of Richelieu, Metternich and
Kissinger, not of Luther, Newton and Beethoven. Such a summary may sound arid, but Europe is anything but. In fact, it
draws the reader forward with its grand epic of shifting alliances, clashing armies and ambitious statecraft. Simms is a
skilled writer with a rare gift for compressed analysis. His focus on the military and diplomatic arc of European
history lends his book a strong narrative line and thematic coherence. Patterns emerge that might have remained buried
in a more various survey.”
  
  Economist, Favorite Book of the Year
  “An original take on
Europe’s history that shows that German power was a concern long before the country formally came into being in
the late 19th century, and perhaps as far back as the mid-1400s. A compelling and provocative thesis that has lessons
for politicians today.”
  
  The Economist
  “Brendan Simms’s new history [is]
especially timely. He has, in effect, dropped a big stone into the European pond and stood back to watch the ripples
spread…. It is a compelling and provocative thesis…. This is sweeping history, told with verve and panache,
and it is all the more refreshing for that.”
  
  Financial Times
  “Europe is a stimulating,
impressive history that starts with the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and extends to the present
day….An excellent read and its insights into the grand themes of European history are penetrating and lucidly
argued.”
  
  The Telegraph
  "Brendan Simms is a historian of unusual range and ability.... His
new book is nothing less than a history of Europe over the past 550 years.... Writing such a book is a colossally
demanding task – the sort of challenge most sane historians would baulk at, unless they had a very clear idea of
what they wanted to say. Luckily, knowing what he wants to say is one of Simms’s strengths. For this book is
driven by two great master-ideas, and there is hardly a page in it where their presence is not felt. So, no matter how
dense the details may be of kings, wars, treaties and governments, the reader always has the exhilarating sense of
moving swiftly onwards.... Like all truly powerful and original works, this is a book worth disagreeing with. But above
all it is a book worth reading." 
  
  The New Statesman
  "[An] unrepentantly old-fashioned, lively and
erudite history of Europe since 1453.... Ambitious in scope... Simms knows what he is talking about."
  
  The
Weekly Standard
  "Sweeping and provocative."
  
  BBC History Magazine
  “Brilliantly
successful….Simms has the breadth of knowledge and clarity of vision to make his case compelling. His book is also
immensely entertaining as well as instructive. There are few pages not enlivened by sharp insight, telling vignette or
memorable turn of phrase. In short, this is a great book and everyone interested in European history will want to read
it.”
  
  The Washington Times
  “[A] sweeping, intelligent and enormously ambitious
book.”
  
  Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, Yale University, and author of
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
  “Europe is a superb, sure-footed analysis of how this center of world
civilization, technology, and warfare evolved since the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It is unabashedly political
history, and the better for being so. Simms’s acumen and sharp opinions are a joy to read. This book will be
appreciated both by the general reader and by history teachers everywhere.”
  
  Timothy Snyder, author
of Bloodlands
  “World history is German history, and German history is world history.
  This is the
powerful case made by this gifted historian of Europe, whose expansive erudition revives the proud tradition of the
history of geopolitics, and whose immanent moral sensibility reminds us that human choices made in Berlin (and London)
today about the future of Europe might be decisive for the future of the world.”
  
  Norman Davies, St.
Antony’s College, Oxford and Jagiellonian University, Krakow
  “European history comes in many guises,
but Brendan Simms’s strategic and geopolitical approach provides a strong and lucid framework within which
everything else fits into place. His emphasis on the centrality of Germany offsets more western-orientated accounts
while also giving due prominence to Eastern Europe. Covering the whole of the modern period, this book is more than an
excellent introduction; it’s a major interpretational achievement.”
  
  William Shawcross
 
“This is a brilliant and beautifully written history. From the Holy Roman Empire to the Euro, Brendan Simms shows
that one of the constant preoccupations of Europeans has always been the geography, the power and the needs of Germany.
Europe is a work of extraordinary scholarship delivered with the lightest of touches. It will be essential, absorbing
reading for anyone trying to understand both the past and the present of one of the most productive and most dangerous
continents on earth.”
  
  Publishers Weekly
  “Bloody European statecraft and the
interminable battle over Germany make the world go round in this magisterial history of modern international
relations…. Simms chronicles this kaleidoscope of conflicts and coalitions with a graceful briskness that teases
larger themes out of the welter of detail…. Simms’s vision of great-power rivalry as the motor of history
offers compelling insights amid a grand narrative sweep.”
  
  Kirkus
  A smartly encapsulated 550
years of European history by a Cambridge historian reveals patterns and perils that continue to play out today….
Simms manages to be both specific and big-picture, dense and wonderfully digestible within one hefty volume…. An
astute, comprehensive one-volume history of the “European project.”
  About the Author
  Brendan
Simms is a fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, professor in the History of European International Relations, and
Director of the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge. The author of five books, including Three
Victories and a Defeat and Unfinest Hour, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, he lives in Cambridge,
England. 						

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