Name: To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 (The Penguin History of Europe)
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Author: Ian Kershaw
ISBN: 9780143109921

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To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 (The Penguin History of Europe)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ian Kershaw

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

624

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9780143109921

Synopsis "To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 (The Penguin History of Europe) "

"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 Review The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the twentieth century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kershaw's long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II. The European catastrophe, the long continuous period from 1914 to 1949, was unprecedented in human history--an extraordinarily dramatic, often traumatic, and endlessly fascinating period of upheaval and transformation. This new volume in the Penguin History of Europe series offers comprehensive coverage of this tumultuous era. Beginning with the outbreak of World War I through the rise of Hitler and the aftermath of the Second World War, award-winning British historian Ian Kershaw combines his characteristic original scholarship and gripping prose as he profiles the key decision makers and the violent shocks of war as they affected the entire European continent and radically altered the course of European history. Kershaw identifies four major causes for this catastrophe: an explosion of ethnic-racist nationalism, bitter and irreconcilable demands for territorial revisionism, acute class conflict given concrete focus through the Bolshevik Revolution, and a protracted crisis of capitalism. Incisive, brilliantly written, and filled with penetrating insights, To Hell and Back offers an indispensable study of a period in European history whose effects are still being felt today.

Ian Kershaw

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Es catedrático de Historia Moderna en la Universidad de Sheffield y una de las máximas autoridades del mundo en Hitler. Por sus servicios a la historia se le otorgó la condecoración alemana de la Cruz Federal del Mérito 1994 y fue nombrado caballero en 2002; en 2004 la Historical Association le otorgó la Medalla Norton Medlicott.

Fue asesor histórico de dos series de la BBC, la premiada The Nazis: A Warning from History y War of the Century. Es autor de Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-45, The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation y del bestseller Hitler, la biografía monumental del dictador.

Hitler 1889-1936 fue seleccionado para el Premio de Biografía Whitbread 1998 y el primer Premio Samuel Johnson de Ensayo. Hitler 1936-1945 recibió el Premio Literario Wolfson de Historia, el Premio Bruno Kreisky de Austria para el Libro Político del Año, se le concedió conjuntamente el premio inaugural de la Academia Británica y fue seleccionado para el Premio de Biografía Whitbread 2000.

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