Britain, as the most powerful of the European victors of World War One, had a unique responsibility to maintain the peace in the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles. The outbreak of a second, even more catastrophic war in 1939 has therefore always raised painful questions about Britain's failure to deal with Nazism. Could some other course of action have destroyed Hitler when he was still weak? In this highly disturbing new book, Ian Kershaw examines this crucial issue. He concentrates on the figure of Lord Londonderry - grandee, patriot, cousin of Churchill and the government minister responsible for the RAF at a crucial point in its existence. Londonderry's reaction to the rise of Hitler - to pursue friendship with the Nazis at all costs - raises fundamental questions about Britain's role in the 1930s and whether in practice there was ever any possibility of preventing Hitler's leading Europe once again into war.

Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War

Biographies & Memoirs

Ian Kershaw

Leaders & Notable People

Penguin??Books

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Death in the Bunker

History

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Personality and Power

Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Allen Lane.

No failure in democratic history had such far reaching consequences as the collapse of the Weimar Republic. Recent debate has centered upon the viability of Weimar democracy and the inevitability of its failure in the context of insuperable economic problems. The papers presented here offer perspectives on the Weimar political experiment, its failure, and the lessons for modern industrial societies. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Weimar: Why Did German Democracy Fail?

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

End: Hitler's Germany, 1944-45

Europe

HITLER 1936-1945 NEMESIS

W.W.Norton&Company

The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945

Hitler: A Biography. [Paperback]

This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sections&#8213;Hitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Final Solution in historiography&#8213;and Kershaw provides an introduction and a closing section on the uniqueness of Nazism.Kershaw was a founding historian of the social history of the Third Reich, and he has throughout his career conducted pioneering research on the societal causes and consequences of Nazi policy. His work has brought much to light concerning the ways in which the attitudes of the German populace shaped and did not shape Nazi policy. This volume presents a comprehensive, multifaceted picture both of the destructive dynamic of the Nazi leadership and of the attitudes and behavior of ordinary Germans as the persecution of the Jews spiraled into total genocide.

Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

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