Sir Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw taught at the universities of Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield. He has honorary doctorates from the universities of Oxford, Manchester, Sheffield, Stirling and Belfast, Leeds and Huddersfield. He was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz by Germany in 1994 and knighted by the Queen in 2002 for services to History. His publications (which have been awarded several prizes) include his two-volume biography of Hitler (1998, 2000; abridged, one-volume version, 2008), The Hitler Myth (1987), Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich (1983); The Nazi Dictatorship (5th edn., 2015), Making Friends with Hitler (2004), Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World (2007), Hitler, the Jews and the Final Solution (2009), The End. Hitler’s Germany, 1944-45 (2011), To Hell and Back. Europe, 1914-49, (2015) and Roller-Coaster. Europe 1950-2017 (2018). His books have been translated into around 30 languages. He has acted as historical adviser to several television series in Britain and in Germany, including those written and produced by Laurence Rees, The Nazis: A Warning from History, War of the Century, Auschwitz, and The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler. His latest book, Personality and Power. Builders and Destroyers of Europe in the Modern Era, will be published by Penguin in 2022.