Ian Kershaw

• Why Nazi Inner Circle Kept Fighting

Sir Ian Kershaw is a prize-winning historian who has devoted himself to the study of Hitler and his time. In "The End," he has produced more than a history. Rather, he has performed a detailed anatomy of the conclusion of World War II in Europe from the post-D- Day breakout to the surrender of Germany. It is grim reading, stupefying in its detail of the horrible Nazi and Russian atrocities visited upon civilians. Yet the book is compelling and fascinating in its depiction of how the Nazi regime - from Hitler's intimates to the senior military commanders to the private soldiers - dealt with the intensifying crush of defeat on both the Eastern and Western fronts. One is impressed against one's will by the energy and resourcefulness of the Germans in maximizing the defensive effect of thei...

• The Washington Times
• September 29, 2011

• View

As the months stretched into years and Erik Larson immersed himself deeper into his research of Nazi Germany, there were many books of great use to him. One, in particular, Ian Kershaw's "Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris," was extremely helpful. It was the cover of the book that became problematic for Larson: a photo of Hitler, imperious and impudent, staring back at the Seattle-based writer every day.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• May 15, 2011

• 'Choices' Is a Stimulating Study of Wwii Leaders

FATEFUL CHOICES: TEN DECISIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, 1940-41, by Ian Kershaw, Penguin Press, 624 pages, $35 In this intriguing interpretive history, Ian Kershaw, a well- known British historian and biographer, proposes 10 fateful choices made during World War II that reshaped history. He focuses on the charismatic world leaders at the time -- Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Mussolini and Tojo -- and connects them convincingly to those choices.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• August 12, 2007

• Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

Luebke reviews by Ian Kershaw.

• Virginia Quarterly Review, The
• Vol. 84 Nbr. 4, October 2008

• Two Years, 10 Major Decisions

George Kennan has called World War I "the original catastrophe." And indeed it was, as it destroyed old and fairly stable empires and led to World War II, a global conflict of incredible carnage, destruction and genocide that challenges our very definition of what it means to be human. Central to that gruesome chronicle is the biography of Adolf Hitler, whose life and times were the subject of a massive and informed two-volume study by Ian Kershaw of the University of Sheffield. Continuing his interest in that war, Mr. Kershaw has now made the fascinating argument that a series of critical decisions made in 1940 and 1941 laid the groundwork for what followed in so many ways.

• The Washington Times
• August 05, 2007

• Ghosts of fascists past.

...And life will go on. . Ian Kershaw is a historian of twentieth-century Germany. His m...

• The National Interest
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• History.

...By Lan Kershaw . A respected historian of the Third Reich and Wor...

• Bookmarks
• Nbr. 2012, January 2012

• The provocative Baron Cohen clan: Sacha (aka Ali G, Borat, Bruno) is not the only member of this British Jewish family to make a name for himself as a creative rebel.

... said, quoting British historian Ian Kershaw. "It's that indifference that's quite dangerous." ...

• Moment
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 4, July 2010

• Kershaw Should Get Look at the Bright Cy'd

Ian Kennedy, nice job collecting 21 wins on a team that woke up one day in September and somehow captured the National League West. Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee, way to live up to the hype. The armed and dangerous duo delivered for a hit squad that accounted for an MLB-best 102-win season.

• Los Angeles Daily News
• November 17, 2011

• Robert Zoellick's Remarks On the National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance, As Prepared for Delivery

...I recently read Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler. Kershaw details frightenin...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 06, 2009