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"'If you think that Britain is a country that not only goes to war with reluctance but also then wages it with restraint, ""Harfleur to Hamburg"" will make you think again. Serious scholars show how the British have been ready to use extraordinary and sometimes unjustifiable levels of violence--not least against their fellow Britons.' -- Hew Strachan, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews 'Fascinating, well-researched pieces by long-standing experts in their fields.' -- Beatrice Heuser, Chair in International Relations, University of Glasgow"

'This book is a troubling reminder that the stakes of war can make criminals of everyone.' * <I>Foreign Affairs</I> * 'If you think that Britain is a country that not only goes to war with reluctance but also then wages it with restraint, ""Harfleur to Hamburg"" will make you think again. Serious scholars show how the British have been ready to use extraordinary and sometimes unjustifiable levels of violence--not least against their fellow Britons.' -- Hew Strachan, Bishop Wardlaw Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews 'Fascinating, well-researched pieces by long-standing experts in their fields.' -- Beatrice Heuser, Chair of International Relations, University of Glasgow 'This brilliant book is riveting history. Every chapter sheds new light on the motives, policies and consequences of Britain's warfare on the European continent. The inflection points selected for examination are themselves an interesting story: instances in which a country that advances international law and normative power acts utterly ruthlessly for strategic reasons, and the culture that drove those decisions.' -- Kori Schake, Director of Foreign and Defense Policy, American Enterprise Institute

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D. J. B. Trim is Professor of Church History at Andrews University in Michigan. His books include European Warfare, 13501750. Brendan Simms is Professor in the History of International Relations, University of Cambridge, and author, inter alia, of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present.

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