When the two volumes of Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis were published, they were immediately greeted around the world as the essential works on perhaps the most malign figure...

Wie die Deutschen Adolf Hitler verherrlichten Adolf Hitler hatte eine breite Anhängerschaft quer durch alle Schichten der Bevölkerung. Auch viele, die sich selbst nicht als Nationalsozialisten betrachteten, waren von ihm fasziniert. Wie...

Ian Kershaw is the author of Hitler, Fateful Choices and The End. von Kershaw, Ian

Sir Ian Kershaw is one of the UK's most distinguished historians. His most famous books include Hitler, Fateful Choices and The End. The first volume in his history of modern Europe, To Hell and Back, was described by the Observer as...

The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought-provoking and gripping new...

A searing account of the last days of the Nazi regime and the downfall of a nation. It is an original and gripping account, explaining how Germany's people reacted to imminent defeat, as well as its leaders. 'Brilliant... nuanced and...

The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017 von Kershaw, Ian

This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. von Kershaw, Ian

"Chilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking…. Kershaw documents each and every 'ism' of his analysis with...

Drawing on a huge range of sources, this book recreates the world which first thwarted and then nurtured Hitler in the author's youth, from early childhood to the first successes of the Nazi Party. It charts the rise of Adolf Hitler,...

One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death....

One of New York Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of the FallHow far can a single leader alter the course of history?From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler,...