Format
Häftad (B-format paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
512
Utgivningsdatum
2023-09-28
Förlag
Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensioner
198 x 129 x 35 mm
Vikt
500 g
ISBN
9780141998237

Personality and Power

Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

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Häftad,  Engelska, 2023-09-28
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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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  1. Mer historia än personlighet
    StenT, 25 november 2024

    Kershaw skriver som vanligt mycket bra. Han är ju en av många brittiska historiker som skriver om nazismen, men har också skrivit utmärkta böcker om Europas 1900-talshistoria.
    Man kan alltid diskutera valet av betydelsefulla politiker, men jag lärde mig mycket om Tito, de Gaulle och Helmut Kohl.
    Kershaw fortsätter en lång tradition av historieforskning som försöker hitta en syntes av personligheten betydelse, med de begränsningar som sattes av de samhällsstrukturer de var verksamma i.

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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.