IAN KERSHAW

Date of Birth: April 29, 1943
Birthplace: Oldham, Lancashire, England
Current Residence: Sheffield, England
Education: Attended St. Bede's College; University of Liverpool, B.A. (with first-class honors), 1965; Merton College, Oxford, D.Phil., 1969.
Profession: Professor of modern history and Head of Department at the University of Sheffield, England

I have never dreamed about Hitler....I've dreamed about the fate of my rugby team, but never about Hitler.
-Ian Kershaw, New York Times

Masterly...Kershaw is able to clarify, perhaps better than any biographer who preceded him, what made Hitler's dictatorial power possible.
-Walter Reich, New York Times Book Review

The historian's duty, superbly discharged by Kershaw, is to analyze how and why Hitler was able to ignite a world war, commit the most heinous crime in history, and throw his country into the abyss of total destruction.
-Gilbert Taylor, Booklist