Ian Kershaw

Personality and Power (eBook, ePUB)

Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141998244
• Artikelnr.: 63259519

Autorenporträt

Ian Kershaw, author of To Hell and Back, The End, Fateful Choices, and Making Friends with Hitler, is a British historian of twentieth-century Germany noted for his monumental biographies of Adolf Hitler. In 2002, he received his knighthood for services to history. He is a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn, Germany.

Rezensionen

Illuminating ... an insightful series of essays about 12 exceptional leaders who stood at the centre of Europe's 20th century. Philip Stephens Financial Times