Après l'accumulation d'horreurs de la première moitié du XXe siècle qui avaient conduit " l'Europe en enfer ", les années 1950 à 2018 apportèrent la paix et une prospérité relative à la majeure partie de l'Europe. D'immenses progrès économi...
Été 1914. L'Europe plonge dans une guerre dévastatrice qui va ébranler le système politique et les valeurs d'un continent entier. Une génération plus tard, alors que les survivants du premier conflit mondial sont encore choqués d'avoir vu sombrer dans la barbarie une civilisation qu'ils considéraien...
« Comment Hitler a-t-il été possible ? Comment un désaxé aussi bizarre a-t-il pu prendre le pouvoir en Allemagne, pays moderne, complexe, développé et culturellement avancé ? Comment a-t-il pu, à partir de 1933, s'imposer à des cercles habitués à diriger, bien éloignés des brutes nazies ? Comment a-...
Dès sa publication en France en 1992, l'ouvrage de Ian Kershaw s'est imposé comme une indispensable référence. En effet, le retard pris par l'école historique française dans l'étude du national-socialisme est inquiétant, alors qu'à l'étranger les travaux sur le nazisme ne se comptent plus. Au point ...
Les années 1940 et 1941 ont été décisives dans l'histoire : en l'espace de dix-huit mois, non seulement la guerre devient mondiale, mais le XXe siècle tout entier bascule dans la violence et l'horreur. La cascade d'événements qui marque les débuts du conflit confronte les acteurs à des choix qui, po...
Ian Kershaws biography of Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the definitive work on the subject, as well as one of the most brilliant biographies of our time. In Making Friends with Hitler, the great scholar shines remarkable new light on decisions that led to war by tracing the extraordinary story ...
SUNDAY TIMES, TLS, SPECTATOR, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, DAILY MAIL and SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY BOOKS OF THE YEAR The last months of the Second World War were a nightmarish time to be alive. Unimaginable levels of violence destroyed entire cities. Millions died or were dispossessed. By all kinds of criteria it wa...
Following the enormous success of HITLER: HUBRIS this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginn...
'It is now time that something was done. But the man who has the courage to do something must do it in the knowledge that he will go down in German history as a traitor. If he does not, however, he will be a traitor to his own conscience' Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, July 1944The July 1944 Plot t...
TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND EDITOR'S CHOICE 2015In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilization that had...
"Chilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking…. Kershaw documents each and every ‘ism’ of his analysis with extraordinary detail and passionate humanism."--The New York Times Book Re...
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Now at last in a single, abridged volume - the definitive life.When the two volumes of Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis were published, they were immediately greeted around the world as the essential works on perhaps the most malign figure eve...
Ian Kershaws biography of Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the definitive work on the subject, as well as one of the most brilliant biographies of our time. In Making Friends with Hitler, the great scholar shines remarkable new light on decisions that led to war by tracing the extraordinary story ...
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