PENGUIN ORANGE SPINES : EUROPE : THE STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY 1453 TO THE PRESENT PB – BRENDAN SIMMS

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.