Kershaw, Ian.

Summary: "From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011

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Kershaw, Ian

Summary: The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back. After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back,' the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019

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Kershaw, Ian

Summary: "From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century Europe and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, Personality and Power is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age's uniquely devastating despots-and how and why other countries found better paths. The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022

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Kershaw, Ian.

Summary: This first book of a two-volume account of Hitler's domination of the German people brings readers closer than ever before to the character of the bizarre misfit.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITLER, ADOLF KER

Kershaw, Ian.

Summary: Drawing on many previously underutilized resources--including the diaries of Joseph Goebbels--a portrait of Hitler encompasses events preceding World War II as well as the war years.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2000

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Summary: A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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