Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern history at the University of Sheffield. For services to history he was given the German award of the Federal Cross of Merit in 1994. he was knighted in 2002 and awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2004.
He was historical advisor to three BBC series- The Nazis- A Warning From History, War of the Century and Auschwitz.
His most recent books are Hitler 1889-1936- Hubris and 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; Making Friends with hitler- Lord Londonberry and Britain's Road to War, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography in 2005; and, most recently, Fateful Choices- Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941.
Few authors would have the ability, and perhaps the determination,
to take on the history of both world wars and the connecting
decades at this level of sophistication, depth and breadth
*The Times*
It is true that his subject could hardly be more familiar, but it
is a great achievement to cover such vast historical territory in
under 600 pages and with such scrupulous balance, care and good
sense. Other historians' books on the same period may be flashier
or more provocative. But to read Kershaw on Europe's bloody century
is to be driven through a ravaged landscape in the sleek, smooth
comfort of a Rolls-Royce, guided by a historian who probably knows
the territory better than anybody else on the planet
*The Sunday Times*
Ian Kershaw is the historian that other academic historians most
admire ... Prof Kershaw sits at the very top of his profession. He
is one of a tiny handful of historians whose books will still be
read in 100 years. So he takes a big risk by moving out of his area
of expertise in order to write an all-encompassing history of
Europe in the 20th century. His courage has paid off. To Hell and
Back, the first of two volumes on the subject, is a triumph
*The Mail on Sunday*
A triumph
*Mail on Sunday*
Kershaw leads his readers through this complex history in a clear
and compelling manner
*Prospect*
To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery,
every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics
do their thinking
*The New York Times*
Authoritative
*Telegraph*
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