“ian kershaw”

The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, "Fateful Choices" puts Ian Kershawas analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the worldas six major powers made a series o... More

Britain, as the most powerful of the European victors of World War One, had a unique responsibility to maintain the peace in the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles. The outbreak of a second, even more catastrophic war in 1939 has therefore always raised painful questions about Britain's failure t... More

Through the story of how Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, came to be mixed up with the Nazis and how it all went horribly wrong for him, Ian Kershaw shows that behind the familiar cartoon is a much more complicated and interesting reality, full of miscalcu... More

An acclaimed historian re-creaties a dramatic sequence of ten decisions made by the leaders of the world's six major powers--Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Mussolini, and Tojo--that reshaped human destiny.The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining tw... More

Few, if any, twentieth-century political leaders have enjoyed greater popularity among their own people than Hitler did in the decade or so following his rise to power in 1933. The personality of Hitler himself, however, can scarcely explain this immense popularity or his political effectiveness in ... More