Ian Kershaw is the author of Hitler 1889-1936- Hubris and Hitler 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. His other books include Making Friends with Hitler, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; Fateful Choices; The End; and his histories of modern Europe, To Hell and Back and Roller-Coaster.
Illuminating ... an insightful series of essays about 12
exceptional leaders who stood at the centre of Europe's 20th
century.
*Financial Times*
Few historians are better qualified to answer these questions than
Ian Kershaw ... As always, he proves a splendid miniaturist,
expertly sketching personalities and philosophies in a few coolly
judged lines ... If Kershaw's book has a contemporary lesson, it is
that societies are probably happiest and healthiest when leaders
matter least.
*Sunday Times*
Sir Ian Kershaw, the great (in both senses) biographer of Adolf
Hitler, makes an important contribution to this debate ...
persuasive and nuanced pen-portraits ... well-researched,
well-written and thought-provoking.
*Daily Telegraph*
Lucid portraits of the leaders who shaped Europe's 20th century ...
There is much to be admired in Kershaw's cogent and astute
analysis.
*The Observer*
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