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.
Series
Books
Hitler
1998
Hitler 1889-1936
Hubris
1998
Popular Opinion & Political Dissent in the Third Reich
Bavaria 1933-45
1985
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
2008
Fateful Choices
Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
2007
Weimar
Why Did German Democracy Fail
1990
The Nazi Dictatorship
Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
1985
Stalinism and Nazism
Dictatorships in Comparison
1997
Roller-Coaster
Europe, 1950-2017
2018
Luck of the Devil
The Story of Operation Valkyrie
2009
Death in the Bunker
2005
The Hitler Myth
Image and Reality in the Third Reich
1987
Hitler
1790
Making Friends with Hitler
Lord Londonderry, the Nazis & the Road to War
1998
Hitler 1936-1945
Nemesis
1998
To Hell and Back
Europe 1914-1949
2015
Personality and Power
Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
2022
The End
The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
2011
