Ian Kershaw, Author . Penguin Press $35 (656p) ISBN 978-1-59420-123-3
Tracing the thought processes behind crucial turning points in WWII's most crucial 19 months, Kershaw, the author of a major biography of Hitler and professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield, reminds us that nothing in that...
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Ian Kershaw. Viking, $35 (624p) ISBN 978-0-670-02458-2
Kershaw (The End), an acclaimed British historian and biographer of Hitler, looks at a 36-year stretch of the 20th
century when Europe was dominated by Germany, from the outbreak of World War I to the nation’s division in the
aftermath of World...
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Ian Kershaw, Author, Ian Kershaw, Preface by W. W. Norton & Company $35 (845p) ISBN 978-0-393-04671-7
We surely need books like Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners that examine German society as a whole in an effort to understand how Hitler came to power and held it for so long. But we also need classic, political biographies that
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Ian Kershaw. Viking, $35 (656p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2398-1
In this brilliant sequel to his history of earlier-20th-century Europe (To Hell and Back), historian Kershaw profiles a Europe that has emerged into the 21st century calmer and more prosperous than in the century before, though with an uncertain...
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Ian Kershaw. Penguin Press, $30 (496p) ISBN 978-1-59420-345-9
Historian Kershaw (The Global Age) profiles 12 leaders who shaped 20th-century Europe in this astute survey. Focusing on “crisis conditions, the type of leader these produce and the role of individuals at crucial junctures of change,” Kershaw...
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