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Brendan Simms

Brendan Simms, a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, is the author of The Impact of Napoleon and, with Alexander Nicoll, of Bosnia.

Selected bibliography

  • Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783 (2007)
  • The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714-1837 edited by Brendan Simms and Torsten Riotte (2007)
  • Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (2002)
  • The Struggle for Mastery in Germany, 1779-1850 (1998)
  • The Impact of Napoleon: Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797-1806 (1997)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Even the stones spoke German · 28 November 2002

  • Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse

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 not available in archive One Good Side · 18 February 1999

  • The Life of Edvard Benes, 1884-1948: Czechoslovakia in Peace and War by Zbynek Zeman and Antonin Klimek