Ian Kershaw

Making Friends with Hitler

Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War

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Produktbeschreibung

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. This title concentrates on the figure of Lord Londonderry - grandee, patriot, cousin of Churchill and the government minister responsible for the RAF.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9780141014234
• ISBN-10: 0141014237
• Artikelnr.: 14760065

Autorenporträt

Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield and one of the world's leading authorities on Hitler. For services to history he was given the German award of the Federal Cross of Merit in 1994 and knighted in 2002, and was awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2004. He is the author of Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Ackowledgments
Map: European Territorial Issues Between the Wars
Preface
Prologue: A Patrician's Progress
1. Illusions and Delusions about Hitler
2. Downfall of the Air Minister
3. Nazi Friends
4. Lengthening Shadows
5. Hope at Last
6. End of the Dream
7. Out in the Cold
Epilogue: Mount Stewart, September 1947
Abbreviations
Notes
Archival Sources
List of Newspapers and Magazines Cited
List of Works Cited
Index