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Sir Ian Kershaw FRHistS FBA (born 29 April 1943) is an English historian whose work has chiefly focused on the social history of 20th-century Germany. He is regarded by many as one of the world's foremost experts on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany , and is particularly noted for his biographies of Hitler.
Ian Kershaw began his career as a medievalist. After switching fields in the 1970s he concentrated on German history. Most recently he published the first of two planned volumes on the history of Europe in the 20th century for the Penguin History of Europe series.
Nov 24, 2015 · Kershaw argues that World War I could have been forestalled if Vienna had acted with speed to punish Serbia for its complicity in the murder of the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian ...
May 14, 2008 · Project Officer: This interview is being conducted for the ‘Making history: the discipline in perspective’ project and the project officer, Danny Millum, will be speaking to Professor Sir Ian Kershaw about his experience of, and views on, changes in the discipline and academic profession of history.
Ian Kershaw has 70 books on Goodreads with 98321 ratings. Ian Kershaw’s most popular book is Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris.
Ian Kershaw taught at the universities of Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield. He has honorary doctorates from the universities of Oxford, Manchester, Sheffield, Stirling and Belfast, Leeds and Huddersfield. He was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz by Germany in 1994 and knighted by the Queen in 2002 for services to History.
May 27, 2008 · Ian Kershaw, the British historian renowned for his authoritative biography of Adolph Hitler has, in Fateful Choices, widened his scope. He reexamines the critical decisions made in 1940 and 1941 by the major participants in World War II and asks what might have happened had they been made differently.
Aug 28, 2012 · Ian Kershaw, in this very well-written and well-balanced history, addresses the internal dynamics of Nazi Germany from the July 1944 attempted officers' coup to the calamitous end, for the German people, in May of 1945, and tries to answer the question of why the Germans fought on to utter ruination.
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Sir Ian Kershaw is an English historian and author whose work has chiefly focused on the social history of 20th-century Germany. He is regarded by many as one of the world’s leading experts on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and is particularly noted for his biographies of Hitler.
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May 31, 2007 · Ian Kershaw. Penguin, May 31, 2007 - History - 656 pages. The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts...
