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Ian Kershaw

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Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern history at the University of Sheffield. For services to history he was given the German award of the Federal Cross of Merit in 1994. he was knighted in 2002 and awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2004.

He was historical advisor to three BBC series: The Nazis: A Warning From History, War of the Century and Auschwitz.

His most recent books are Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and 1936-1945: Nemesis, which received the Wolfson Literary Award for History and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for the Political Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize; Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonberry and Britain's Road to War, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography in 2005; and, most recently, Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941.

Available Books by Ian Kershaw

	The End: Hitler's Germany, 1944-45 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141014210 RRP: $22.95 'Brilliant . . . undoubtedly a masterpiece' Mail on Sunday'No one has written a better account of the human dimensions of Nazi Germany's end' James J. Sheehan, New York Review of Books What made Germany keep fighting to the death, even when it was clear they would lose the Second World War? Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skin? And why did or...
	The Nazi Dictatorship, 4th Ed. Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340760284 RRP: $55.00 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 great deal of research, in particular by German scholars, which is not available in English. He descri...
	Hitler Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141035888 RRP: $29.95 Ian Kershaw's two-volume biography of Hitler was greeted with universal acclaim as the essential work on one of the most malign figures in history. Now this landmark biography is available in one single, abridged edition, tracing the story of how a bitter, failed art student from an obscure corner of Austria rose to unparalleled power and destroyed the lives of millions....
	Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed The World, 1940-1941 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141014180 RRP: $27.95 In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. Ian Kershaw re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940, when Britain chose...
	Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140272390 RRP: $29.95 Following the enormous success of 'Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris', this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning with Hitler's startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhine...
	Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140133639 RRP: $29.95 This book allows us to come closer than ever before to a serious understanding of the man and of the catastrophic sequence of events which allowed a bizarre misfit to climb from a Viennese dosshouse to leadership of one of Europe's most sophisticated countries. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, Kershaw recreates the world which first thwarted and then...

	The End Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781594203145 RRP: $45.95 Provided by publisher....
	Fateful Choices Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143113720 RRP: $25.95 Dramatically recreates a sequence of ten decisions made by six major leaders between May 1940 and December 1941 that reshaped human destiny, from Churchill's war cabinet's choice to continue fighting after the German blitzkrieg defeat of France and Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union to Hitler's declaration of war on the U.S. and his subsequent decision to eliminate Jewish citizens...
	Making Friends With Hitler Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780143036074 RRP: $21.95 Describes how one of Britain's most important aristocrats, Lord Londerry, was ruined by his association with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party and the miscalculations on the part of the British that led to the Second World War. Reprint....
	Hitler Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780393067576 RRP: $51.95 A single-volume edition of a classic biographical work traces the German dictator's origins as a failed artist in Vienna through his dramatic final days in his Berlin bunker, in an account that addresses key questions about the nature of Nazi radicalism, the Holocaust, and the factors that enabled European society to permit his atrocities. 25,000 first printing....
	Hitler Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780393322521 RRP: $32.95 Draws on previously unused sources, including Joseph Goebbels' diaries, to encompass the period beginning with the Nazi dictator's attaining absolute power within Germany, through the second World War, to Hitler's suicide. Reprint....
	Hitler Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780582437562 RRP: $54.95 ...
	Hitler, 1889-1936 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780393320350 RRP: $32.95 Traces Hitler's rise from a shelter for needy children in Austria to dictatorship over Germany and the beginning of his persecution of the Jews....
	Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780300124279 RRP: $45.95 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....
	Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780300151275 RRP: $28.95 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....
	Stalinism and Nazism Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780521565219 RRP: $90.95 ...
	Tapping Hitler's Generals Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781844157051 RRP: $64.95 ...
	The Nazis Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781565845510 RRP: $25.95 Previously unpublished archival material, photographs, and eyewitness testimony offer a look at Nazi Germany from Hitler's rise to power to the end of World War II...
	The Young Hitler I Knew Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781611450583 RRP: $19.95 ...
	The Young Hitler I Knew Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781853676949 RRP: $38.95 ...

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	Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed The World, 1940-1941 Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780713997125 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. It has become, in effect, a tragedy with each leader and each country playing an assigned part. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought-provoking and gripping new book, 'Fateful Choices', demolishes any such sense of in...
	Hitler Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780393046717 Traces Hitler's rise from a shelter for needy children in Austria to dictatorship over Germany and the beginning of his persecution of the Jews...
	Hitler Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781846140693 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 ever to hold power in modern Europe. In the face of considerable demand for such an edition, Kershaw has now created a single volume version. The result is a frig...
	Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780140288988 'The Hitler biography for the 21st century... cool, judicious, factually reliable and intelligently argued.' Richard Evans, Sunday Telegraph 'Magnificent... the first of a two-volume biography which it is hard to believe will ever be superseded.' Niall Ferguson, Evening Standard 'Undoubtedly the most fascinating book I have read this year... deeply disturbing. Unforgettable....
	Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780713990478 'I go with the certainty of a sleepwalker along the path laid out for me by Providence.' Adolf Hitler, 14 March 1936More than half a century after his suicide and the destruction of his entire movement, Hitler continues to prey on the modern mind to a degree which is quite unique. The sheer scale of the evils he unleashed on the world have made him a demonic figure without equal in modern ...
	Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141004181 ...
	Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780713992298 "Whether right or wrong, we must win. That is the only way. And it is morally right and necessary. And when we have won, who will ask us about the method?" Adolf Hitler, 1941. It is impossible to offer an adequate parallel to Hitler's situation in 1936. With the peaceful resolution of the Rhineland crisis, Hitler became both the adored object of the vast majority of Germans and a...
	Luck of the Devil: The Story of Operation Valkyrie Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141040066 'It is now time that something was done. But the man who has the courage to do something must do it in the knowledge that he will go down in German history as a traitor. If he does not, however, he will be a traitor to his own conscience' Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the conspirators against Hitler, July 1944 The July 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler was a desperate attempt by a...
	Making Friends With Hitler: Lord Londonderry And Britain's Road To War Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780141014234 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 to deal with Nazism. Could some other course of action have destroyed Hitler when he was still we...

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