Ian Kershaw

Una historia de Europa desde la primera guerra mundial hasta nuestros días. Ian Kershaw, uno de los más prestigiosos historiadores actuales, revive la historia de Europa desde la primera guerra mundi

Indispensable para conocer la historia de Europa desde finales de la segunda guerra mundial hasta la actualidad. Después de los horrores de la primera mitad del siglo XX, que Ian Kershaw describió e

Ian Kershaws HITLER allows us to come closer than ever before to a serious understanding of the man and of the catastrophic sequence of events which allowed a bizarre misfit to climb from a Viennese dosshouse to leadership of one of Europes most sophisticated countries. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, Kershaw recreates the world which first thwarted and then nurtured the young Hitler. As his seemingly pitiful fantasy of being Germanys saviour attracted more and more support, Kershaw brilliantly conveys why so many Germans adored Hitler, connived with him or felt powerless to resist him.

One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities had somehow given them the ability to do whatever they wished.Ian Kershaw's new book is a compelling, lucid and challenging attempt to understand these rulers, whether operating on the widest stage (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini) or with a more national impact (Tito, Franco). What was it about these leaders and the times they lived in that allowed them such untrammelled and murderous power? And what brought that era to an end? In a contrasting group of profiles, from Churchill to de Gaulle, Adenauer to Gorbachev, and Thatcher to Kohl, Kershaw uses his exceptional skills to think through how other, strikingly different figures wielded power.

In queste pagine Ian Kershaw ricostruisce la parabola delluomo che trascino il mondo ben oltre lorlo del baratro e lo fa con rigore appassionato e indiscussa autorita.Considerata una pietra miliare degli studi su Adolf Hitler e sul Terzo Reich, questopera monumentale, pubblicata per la prima volta in due volumi tra il 1998 e il 2000, e il racconto spaventoso e affascinante di come un misero provinciale venuto da un angolo remoto dellAustria asburgica sia riuscito a conquistare un potere senza precedenti; di come le idee improbabili e spregevoli di un ex studente darte perdigiorno siano riuscite a saldarsi in unideologia che per dodici anni segno il destino di milioni di persone; e di come la folle determinazione a imporre militarmente la sua volonta e a respingere i suoi molti nemici abbia scatenato una catastrofe genocida. In queste pagine Ian Kershaw ricostruisce la parabola delluomo che trascino il mondo ben oltre lorlo del baratro e lo fa con rigore appassionato e indiscussa autorita.

Pocos dirigentes políticos del siglo XX han disfrutado de mayor popularidad que Hitler, entre su propia gente, durante los años treinta y cuarenta. La fascinación que emanaba de su figura estaba basada en las esperanzas de los millones de personas que lo idolatraban y creian en el. Su magnetismo radicaba menos en los extraños y arcanos preceptos de la ideologia nazi que en ciertos valores sociales y politicos reconocibles en muchas sociedades distintas a la de la Alemania del Tercer Reich. En este libro, Ian Kershaw cartografia la creacion, la ascension y la caida del mito de Hitler a partir de todos estos elementos.El autor demuestra de que modo el culto creado en torno al Fuhrer constituyo una fuerza integradora crucial para el Tercer Reich, asi como un elemento vital para la consecucion de los objetivos politicos nazis. Cima de las mas perversas tecnicas de propaganda, luego mas cautelosamente utilizadas por el poder politico y militar, la deificacion de Hitler efectuada por los nazis en el contexto de un moderno Estado industrial conlleva un siniestro mensaje para nuestro presente.

The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily though-provoking and gripping new book, Fateful Choices, demolishes any such sense of inevitability. It dramatises brilliantly and distressingly events that between them could have resulted in disaster or victory - either for the Allies or for the Axis.

Hitler 1889-1936 recrea, con una destreza y una intensidad extraordinarias, valiendose de una inmensa variedad de fuentes, el mundo que primero frustró y luego nutrió al joven Hitler, desde sus raíces provincianas de la Austria de los Habsburgo hasta la Viena de preguerra, desde el crisol de la Gran Guerra hasta aquel mundo politico virulento de la Baviera de los años veinte. Mientras la fantasia en apariencia lastimosa de que Hitler fue el salvador de Alemania atraia cada vez mas apoyo, Kershaw explica con brillantez por que tantos alemanes lo adoraron, fueron sus complices o se sintieron impotentes para oponersele; y tambien en cuantos momentos las elites alemanas pudieron haber impedido su ascension, pero como se equivocaron en sus juicios sobre el monstruo que vivia con ellos... hasta que fue demasiado tarde.

Hitler 1889-1936 explica las razones por las que los habitantes de un estado moderno, de elevado nivel cultural y de economía puntera, pusieron su destino en manos de un intruso de la política como Adolf Hitler. Ese primer volumen terminaba con la remilitarizacion de Renania en 1936, cuando el dictador gozaba del apoyo de una abrumadora mayoria de alemanes. Ian Kershaw hace un repaso, en este segundo volumen de su aclamada biografia de Hitler, de las decisiones mas demagogicas y sanguinarias de Hitler hasta su muerte en 1945, y propone explicar de que modo este pudo llegar a ejercer el poder absoluto con la aquiescencia y el beneplacito de los ciudadanos de su pais, que se dejaron arrastrar a una guerra genocida, el asesinato en masa y a la propia devastacion.Se trata, en palabras del propio autor, de una "historia sobrecogedora de autodestruccion tanto nacional como individual, de como un pueblo y sus representantes fraguaron su propia catastrofe como parte de una destruccion calamitosa de la civilizacion occidental".

Kershaw analiza las fuerzas que llevaron a los líderes a actuar, pero tambien la importancia de las personalidades particulares. Churchill, luchando por la catástrofe de Francia; Hitler ordenando la invasion de la URSS, a pesar del fracaso de Alemania para vencer a Gran Bretaña; Stalin confiando en Hitler y dejando a su pais abierto a la Operacion Barbarosa; Roosevelt aceptando la idea revolucionaria de que el lend-lease podria mantener a Gran Bretaña en la guerra; el alto comando japones eligiendo atacar los EE.UU. incluso sabiendo que era un error.Esta obra mira en el terrible corazon de la edad moderna e intenta entender las decisiones que cambiaron o acabaron con la vida de millones de personas.aIan Kershaw es catedratico de Historia Moderna en la Universidad de Sheffield y una de las maximas autoridades del mundo en Hitler (reconocido como su ultimo gran biografo). Por sus servicios a la historia se le otorgo la condecoracion alemana de la Cruz Federal del Merito 1994 y fue nombrado caballero en 2002; en 2004 la Historical Association le otorgo la Medalla Norton Medlicott. Es autor, entre otros, del best-seller Hitler, la biografia monumental del dictador, publicada por Peninsula. Con Hitler 1936-1945 recibio el Premio Literario Wolfson de Historia, el Premio Bruno Kreis

When the two volumes of Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis were published, they were immediately greeted around the world as the essential works on perhaps the most malign figure ever to hold power in modern Europe. In the face of considerable demand for such an edition, Kershaw has now created a single volume version. The result is a frightening, fascinating narrative of how a bitter provincial failure from an obscure corner of Austria rose to unparalleled power; how the half-baked, contemptible ideas of a vagrant former art student coalesced into an ideology that for twelve horrific years shaped the fate of millions; and how both in his determination to impose his will militarily and to fend off his many enemies he unleashed a genocidal Armageddon. No one individual can stand in as the scapegoat for the vast social, technological, economic and military forces that shape our societies - but if ever there was one man whose ideas and personality shaped and cowed those forces, as well as embodying them, it was Hitler. This is his story and Kershaw tells it with unique authority, and with moral anger.

''It is now time that something was done. But the man who has the courage to do something must do it in the knowledge that he will go down in German history as a traitor. If he does not, however, he will be a traitor to his own conscience'' - Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, July 1944. The July 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler was a desperate attempt by a group of senior officers to redeem Germany''s honour and end the Second World War. They were heroic because they knew their chances of success were slight and that the result of their failure would undoubtedly be a terrible death.They wanted to leave a message for later generations: that there were Germans who understood the evils of Nazism and were willing to act against it. This extraordinary story is the basis for Bryan Singer''s major new film "Valkyrie", due to be released in February 2009. Published for the first time as a separate book, "Luck of the Devil" is taken from Ian Kershaw''s bestselling "Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis" and is a brilliant account of just what happened in those fateful days at Hitler''s Wolf''s Lair headquarters, when his opponents came so astonishingly close to assassinating what is one of the modern era''s most terrible figures.

The Second World War also left humanity with a new, horrible word which also relates to what has increasingly come to be seen as a defining characteristic of the century: genocide. 4 And, though it was lamentably far from the only instance in that benighted century, what later came to be known as 'the Holocaust' — the planned attempt by Nazi Germany to wipe out a targeted eleven million Jews, a genocidal project unprecedented in history — left the most lasting and fundamental mark on future decades. In terms of power-politics, the legacy of the Holocaust ensured, and gave legitimacy to, the foundation of the state of Israel, supported by much of the world but ferociously attacked by the new country's neighbours who had lost land, and inevitably leading to unending, even increasing, turmoil in the Middle East, with huge implications for the rest of the world. And in terms of mentalities, the ever greater preoccupation with the Holocaust, the further it recedes into history, has profoundly affected views about race, ethnicity and the treatment of minorities. The context for the killing of the Jews had been the Second World War. But, more than just context, the murder of the Jews had been an intrinsic part of the German war effort. This inbuilt genocidal component of the Second World War has come to play an increasingly important part in shaping historical consciousness during subsequent decades.

Nueva edición de Hitler de Kershaw. Una selección definitiva del autor en un solo volumen. La biografía definitiva de Hitler. Un compendio de dos volúmenes en uno hecha por el propio autor. Kershaw es uno de los historiadores mas importantes sobre el periodo nazi, sobre Hitler y la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Este libro es la culminación de más de tres décadas de minucioso estudio historiográfico sobre la Alemania nazi. Escrito por Ian Kershaw, uno de los mayores expertos en el período, reúne por primera vez los aspectos mas importantes e influyentes de la investigacion de sobre el Holocausto. Organizado en tres capitulos: Hitler y la Solucion Final; La opinion popular y los judios en la Alemania nazi; y La Solucion Final en la historiografia, ofrece ademas una introduccion y un epilogo sobre la singularidad del nazismo.Kershaw, creador de la historia social del Tercer Reich, ha llevado a cabo a lo largo de su carrera una investigacion pionera sobre las causas sociales y las consecuencias de la politica nazi. Esta obra presenta una amplia y polifacetica imagen tanto de la dinamica destructiva de los dirigentes nazis y de las actitudes y el comportamiento de los alemanes de la calle, como de la espiral de persecucion contra los judios que degenero en genocidio.