books by Ian Kershaw

books by Ian Kershaw

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Ian Kershaw

The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich

Ian Kershaw

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Solid work
Kershaw is probably more famous now for his two part bio of Hitler, but he wrote this book around 1980 and it is still one of the best works on how propaganda painted a picture of the Fuhrer. What one finds out through reading this book is a glmpse into everyday life ...

Hitler: A Biography (One-Volume Edition)
Ian Kershaw

W. W. Norton, 2008

Finally, the one-volume edition of Ian Kershaw's definitive and masterful biography of Hitler. "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-siécle Vienna to the ...

Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941

Ian Kershaw

Penguin Press HC, The, 2007

Very well researched. An excellent read.
Ian Kershaw's book is an elegantly-written masterful work of history but rather dense at some points and more of an academic nature than an easy read. In "Fateful Choices" Kershaw cast a critical eye over ten decisions taken during a 19-month period at the beginning of ...

Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

Ian Kershaw

Yale University Press, 2008

German's Hatred
This book explains further how the German people allowed repression by abstention. By allowing laws that discriminated against Jews the German people who had a history of dislike for Jews ignored the subtle and not so subtle hatred of Jews to become part of the fabric ...

Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris

Ian Kershaw

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

Anticipating "what Hitler wanted"
This is a long and very detailed book. I knew it was not going to be easy reading when I started it. To my surprise, the first part of the book was quite compelling and not at all difficult to read. At about the halfway point of the book's nearly 600 pages of text, ...

Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941

Ian Kershaw

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008

When the world hung in the balance
For those familiar with Kershaw primarily through his definitive two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler, 'Fateful Choices' might seem, at first glance, like a comparatively light-weight book with a 'what-if' gimmick at its core: what if England had sought a negotiated ...

The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation

Ian Kershaw

A Hodder Arnold Publication, 2000

Not for casual reading
This book is a collection of short and dense summaries of other prominent works written on Nazism. Thoroughly researched and contanining a wealth of information, Kershaw's work is a valuable introduction for any researcher or college student. However, I think the ...

Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis

Ian Kershaw

W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

"Working Towards the Fuhrer"
How could a racial crank with no education rule Germany so effectively for years? If he was an evil genius, Why did he then fail, stupidly leading it into a second war and eventual defeat? Kershaw's answer is the Nazi phrase, "working towards the Fuhrer". When Hitler ...

Hitler (2nd Edition) (Profiles in Power Series)

Ian Kershaw

Longman, 2000

Excellent study by the best Hitler biographer
Ian Kershaw is the premier historian on Hitler and Nazi Germany and this book from the Profiles in Power series is an excellent study on the roots, success, and ultimate destruction of the "Fuehrercult." Two schools of thought are used by historians to understand the ...

Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison

Cambridge University Press, 1997

Interesting insights
The book sets a good basis for comparative sociology of power and legitimacy. It observes two dictators who at least these days seem to be the most despised leaders of the 20th century. Lewin and Kershaw have brought together a handful of WW II top scholars, whose ...

Weimar: Why Did German Democracy Fail (Debates in Modern History)

Palgrave Macmillan, 1990

what I wrote before the wall came down
IN Ian Kershaw's introduction he describes Weimar as an expression of modernity, in that during the 14 years of the Republic, 'nearly all the possibilities of modern existence were played out and in a whole number of scientific, technological and cultural spheres, the ...

Hitler 1889-1936
Ian Kershaw

Peninsular Publishing Company, 2004

Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War

Ian Kershaw

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005

"Anglo-German Fellowship"
Ian Kershaw continues to add to his list of extraordinarily valuable books on Nazi-era Germany in this volume focusing on Lord Londonderry's activities prior to the World War II. Londonderry (ironically, a cousin of Churchill) took the lead in attempting to improve ...

The Nazis: A Warning from History

Laurence Rees

New Press, 1999

A Photographic Journey Into The Hell Of Nazi Atrocities!
For the serious history student interested in a quick cold-water style immersion in an excellent though disturbing look at the murderous excesses of the Nazi years, this startling book provides a sanguine, surprising, and totally readable overview of the brutalities, ...

Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-1945
Ian Kershaw

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

Now updated with a new introduction and bibliography, Kershaw's classic study of popular responses to Nazi policy and ideology explores the political mentality of "ordinary Germans" in one part of Hitler's Reich. Basing his account on many unpublished sources, the author analyzes socioeconomic discontent and the popular reaction to the anti-Church ...