Personality and Power
Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
$52.00
- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
5 October 2022
Summary
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 o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241532416 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241532418 |
| Author: | Ian Kershaw |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 5 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 714g |
| Dimensions: | 162mm x 240mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Illuminating … an insightful series of essays about 12 exceptional leaders who stood at the centre of Europe’s 20th century.
Illuminating … an insightful series of essays about 12 exceptional leaders who stood at the centre of Europe’s 20th century. – Philip Stephens * Financial Times *Few historians are better qualified to answer these questions than Ian Kershaw … As always, he proves a splendid miniaturist, expertly sketching personalities and philosophies in a few coolly judged lines … If Kershaw’s book has a contemporary lesson, it is that societies are probably happiest and healthiest when leaders matter least. – Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *Sir Ian Kershaw, the great (in both senses) biographer of Adolf Hitler, makes an important contribution to this debate … persuasive and nuanced pen-portraits … well-researched, well-written and thought-provoking. – Andrew Roberts * Daily Telegraph *Lucid portraits of the leaders who shaped Europe’s 20th century … There is much to be admired in Kershaw’s cogent and astute analysis. – Orlando Figes * The Observer *
About The Author
Ian Kershaw
Ian Kershaw is the author of Hitler 1889-1936- Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945- Nemesis, which received the Wolfson Literary Award for History and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for the Political Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize. His other books include Making Friends with Hitler, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; Fateful Choices; The End; and his histories of modern Europe, To Hell and Back and Roller-Coaster.
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