Michael Burleigh is a historian and commentator. His books
include the best-selling The Third Reich: A New History, which won
the 2001 Samuel Johnson Prize; Small Wars, Far Away Places, which
was longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and, most recently
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times.
He writes regularly for the The Times, Daily Mail and Mail on
Sunday on international affairs and has also won a British Film
Institute Award for Archival Achievement and a New York Film and
Television Festival Award Bronze Medal. A Professor of Modern
History, Michael was the first appointed Engelsberg Chair of
History and International Relations at LSE IDEAS, which is an
annual distinguished visiting professorship, delivering public
lectures to LSE's foreign policy think tank. He held the post from
2019 to 2020. He lives in London.
'Meticulously, stylishly, and with great skill, Burleigh describes the growing links with state authorities, and with the SS, even before the outbreak of the war and German expansion brought about the 'hour of the experts'. Michael Burleigh's excellent study is a chilling account of scholarship working in the interest of inhumane, repulsive political precepts.' Ian Kershaw; 'A major contribution to our knowledge of ordinary life in Nazi Germany through its exposure of the ready collaboration of a section of the no-so-muddled majority, the academic profession' History Today; 'Michael Burleigh's case against German experts on the East is brilliantly provocative and robust' Times Literary Supplement
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