Ian Kershaw's "Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris" charts the rise of Adolf Hitler, from a bizarre misfit in a Viennese dosshouse, to dictatorial leadership. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, Kershaw recreates the world which first thwarted and then nurtured Hitler in[...]
Winner of the Wolfson Prize for History, Ian Kershaw's "Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis" is the concluding second volume of one of the greatest biographies of modern times. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is mo[...]
Ian Kershaw's "Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41" offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could[...]
This title has been nominated for "Sunday Times", "TLS", "Spectator", "Sunday Telegraph", "Daily Mail" and "Scotland On Sunday" Books of The Year. In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save t[...]
Now available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw's "Hitler" is the definitive biography of the Nazi leader. Ian Kershaw's two volume biography, "Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris" and "Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis", was greeted with universal acclaim as the essential work on one of the most malign fig[...]
The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, "Fateful Choices" puts Ian Kershaw's analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world's six major powers made a series o[...]
From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equal[...]
Few twentieth-century political leaders enjoyed greated popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This remarkable study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, and delves into Hitler's extraordinarily powerful hold over the German people. In this '[...]
A thought-provoking volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of the author's research on the Holocaust for the first time to show the ways in which the attitudes of the German populace both shaped and did not shape Nazi policy.[...]
Presents historiographic research on Nazi Germany. This book brings together the important aspects of the author's research on the Holocaust. Featuring three sections: Hitler and the 'Final Solution', popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the 'Final Solution' in historiography, it provid[...]
The Nazi Dictatorship has become the classic exploration of the complex issues historians face when they interpret the Third Reich. Ian Kershaw synthesizes and evaluates this complex historiography, looking at the major themes and debates relating to Nazism and drawing widely on the findings of a gr[...]
"The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitler is a new, distilled, one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-si cle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw's ric[...]
From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on [...]
The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw s Hitler is a one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler s origins as a failed artist in fin-de-si cle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw s richly illustrated bi[...]
Adolf Hitler has left a lasting mark on the twentieth-century, as the dictator of Germany and instigator of a genocidal war, culminating in the ruin of much of Europe and the globe. This innovative best-seller explores the nature and mechanics of Hitler's power, and how he used it.[...]
In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilization that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest o[...]
From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equal[...]
Between 1942 and 1945, MI-19, a division of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, created a number of Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centres in and around London. The most important of these centres was at Trent Park, in North London. Sophisticated tapping equipment was instal[...]
Dette er Ian Kershaws nye, spennende biografi om Adolf Hitlers liv - fra fødsel til selvmordet i førerbunkeren i Berlin i 1945. Hvem var despoten som skapte verdenshistoriens verste blodbad? Hvorledes kom han til makten? Hva tenkte han da han gikk til krig mot andre land og startet massemordet på[...]
Dette er Ian Kershaws spennende biografi om Adolf Hitlers liv - fra fødsel til selvmordet i førerbunkeren i Berlin i 1945. Hvem var despoten som skapte verdenshistoriens verste blodbad? Hvorledes kom han til makten? Hva tenkte han da han gikk til krig mot andre land og startet massemordet på jød[...]
Adolf Hitler Navnet er synonymt med et af de værste diktaturer i historien, med folkemord og Anden Verdenskrig.
Han forårsagede ubeskrivelige lidelser for millioner af mennesker. Man er på én gang fascineret og frastødt, ogønsker svar på spørgsmålet: Hvordan kun[...]
Adolf Hitler - Navnet er synonymt med et af de værste diktaturer i historien, med folkemord og Anden Verdenskrig.
Han forårsagede ubeskrivelige lidelser for millioner af mennesker. Man er på én gang fascineret og frastødt, og ønsker svar på spørgsmålet: Hvordan [...]