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What drove Europe into two world wars?

Fear and nationalism, along with Nazism and fascism, are the predictable villains of Ian Kershaw’s To Hell and Back — while communism gets off curiously lightly

19 September 2015

8:00 AM

19 September 2015

8:00 AM

To Hell and Back: Europe 1914–1949 Ian Kershaw

Allen Lane, pp.569, £30, ISBN: 9780713990898

Sir Ian Kershaw won his knight’s spurs as a historian with his much acclaimed two-volume biography of Hitler, Hubris and Nemesis. He is now attempting to repeat the feat with a two-volume history of modern Europe, of which this is the opening shot.Inevitably, the figure of the Führer once again marches across Kershaw’s pages as they chronicle the years dominated by Germany’s malign master.

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