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Ian Kershaw

Biography

Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw, author of THE END, FATEFUL CHOICES and MAKING FRIENDS WITH HITLER, is a British historian of 20th-century Germany noted for his monumental biographies of Adolf Hitler. In 2002 he received his knighthood for Services to History. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Royal Historical Society, of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn.

Ian Kershaw

Books by Ian Kershaw

To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
by Ian Kershaw - History, Nonfiction

The European catastrophe, the long continuous period from 1914 to 1949, was unprecedented in human history --- an extraordinarily dramatic, often traumatic, and endlessly fascinating period of upheaval and transformation. TO HELL AND BACK offers comprehensive coverage of this tumultuous era. Beginning with the outbreak of World War I through the rise of Hitler and the aftermath of the Second World War, award-winning British historian Ian Kershaw profiles the key decision makers and the violent shocks of war as they affected the entire European continent and radically altered the course of European history.

The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
by Ian Kershaw

Award-winning historian Ian Kershaw has produced a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II.