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 dramatically expanding her own empire. These
alliances sustained the nation through the War of the Spanish
Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, and the Seven
Years' War. But in 1776, Britain lost the American continent by
alienating her European allies.
An extraordinary reinterpretation of British and American
history, "Three Victories and a Defeat" is a masterwork by a rising
star of the historical profession.
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