Ian Kershaw

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April 29, 1943 in Oldham, Lancashire, England, The United Kingdom

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Professor Sir Ian Kershaw is a British historian, noted for his biographies of Adolf Hitler.
Ian Kershaw studied at Liverpool (BA) and Oxford (D. Phil). He was a lecturer first in medieval, then in modern, history at the University of Manchester. In 1983-4 he was Visiting Professor of Modern History at the Ruhr University in Bochum, West Germany. From 1987 to 1989 he was Professor of Modern History at the University of Nottingham, and since 1989 has been Professor of Modern History at Sheffield. He is a fellow of the British Academy, of the Royal Historical Society, of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn. He retired from academic life in the autumn semester of 2008.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 2,197 ratings · 230 reviews · 28 distinct works

	Hitler, Vol. 1: 1889-1936 Hubris 4.23 avg rating — 608 ratings — published 1998 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Hitler, Vol. 2: 1936-1945 Nemesis 4.26 avg rating — 523 ratings — published 2000 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Hitler 4.16 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 1991 — 31 editions	My rating:
	The End: The Defiance & Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45 3.93 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World 1940-1941 3.85 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich 3.81 avg rating — 113 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution 4.10 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation 3.96 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1985 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis & the Road to War 3.55 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Death In The Bunker 3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2005	My rating:

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Hitler (3 books)
by Ian Kershaw

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“I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about”
― Ian Kershaw, Popular Opinion & Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-45

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