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Ian Kershaw

April 2024

  • Adrian Chiles

    Everyone laughed at Hitler in the 1920s. A century on, are we making the same mistake?

    Adrian Chiles
    Just because we find a political leader ludicrous, that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous, writes Adrian Chiles

September 2022

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    Book of the day
    Personality and Power by Ian Kershaw review – follow the leader… for good or ill

    The great historian’s analyses of a dozen 20th-century democrats and dictators are individually cogent but his conclusions tend to the obvious

October 2015

  • British tanks move forward with infantry at Grevilliers in August 1918.

    To Hell and Back review: Ian Kershaw’s expert view of the 20th-century apocalypse

    Kershaw’s masterly single-volume survey of the 1914 to 1949 period deserves classic status

January 2012

  • Robert McCrum

    Robert McCrum on books
    What larks wartime was for a lucky few

    Robert McCrum

    As Anita Leslie's memoir, Train to Nowhere, illustrates, the second world war was an opportunity for some to embark on a six-year-long adventure, writes Robert McCrum

November 2011

  • Robert McCrum

    Robert McCrum on books
    No sign of a ceasefire in the endless war of words

    Robert McCrum
    Nearly 70 years after it ended, the second world war is still throwing up books inspired by the conflict, writes Robert McCrum

September 2011

  • Hitler decorates members of the Hitler Youth five days before his suicide

    The End by Ian Kershaw - review

    Mark Mazower examines Ian Kershaw's attempt to explain German loyalty in the last days of the Third Reich

August 2011

  • Critical eye
    Critical eye: book reviews roundup

  • Ian Kershaw

    A life in ...
    A life in writing: Ian Kershaw

August 2008

  • The twisted road to war

    There has been endless debate about the crises of 1938. Seventy years later, scholars have finally agreed on some conclusions, writes Ian Kershaw

November 2007

  • Blind optimism

    As Hitler shouted his way up the political ranks in Germany, the Guardian and Observer misjudged the extent of his early influence, writes Sir Ian Kershaw

September 2007

  • Great interviews of the 20th century
    A distorted report on the true Hitler

    Ian Kershaw: In 1932, Germany's democracy, which had emerged from the defeat of 1918, had entered its terminal phase.

June 2007

  • What if Hitler hadn't ...

    Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices offers a scholarly analysis of the Second World War's key turning points, says Robert McCrum.

  • Higher education profile
    Ian Kershaw: Past master

    John Crace traces the twists of fate that led the historian to focus on Hitler and the second world war.

  • The method in history's madness

    Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices brilliantly analyses the key decisions that shaped the second world war, says Antony Beevor.

November 2004

  • The other man who tried to appease Hitler

    Rich, well connected and with a fascination for politics, Lord Londonderry was that most useful of men - a perfect scapegoat. Ian Kershaw tells his story in Making Friends with Hitler.

October 2004

  • The Führer's friend

    Ian Kershaw shows how the seventh Marquess of Londonderry had a knack for always backing the wrong horse in his biography of Churchill's 'half-wit' cousin, Making Friends with Hitler.

September 2004

  • The human Hitler

    The first German film to feature an actor playing the Führer opened this week. But by depicting him as a complex character, does it diminish the evil that he did? Or is Germany finally coming to terms with its past? The acclaimed Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw offers his verdict.

January 2003

  • The thing about Hitler

    On the eve of the 70th anniversary of his gaining power, acclaimed biographer Ian Kershaw unpicks our continuing fascination with the Führer.

January 2002

  • Hitler 1936-45: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw

    Ian Kershaw's second volume of his acclaimed biography of Adolf Hitler recently won the British Academy's first annual book prize. This excerpt from the first chapter includes the 'Nazi Olympics' of 1936, Germany's involvement in the Spanish Civil War and the perceived threat from Bolshevism.

December 2000

  • Ian Kershaw: My inspiration

    Historian and author of Hitler 1936-45: Nemesis describes his early influences

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