Brendan Simms is the author of Unfinest Hour (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), Three Victories and a Defeat, the universally praised Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, The Longest Afternoon, The 400 Men who Decided the Battle of Waterloo and Britain’s Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation, all published by Allen Lane. He is Professor of the History of European International Relations at the University of Cambridge.