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    Making Friends with Hitler

    Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War

    Author Ian Kershaw
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    5.5"W x 8.42"H x 1.06"D  
    On sale Oct 25, 2005 | 528 Pages | 9780143036074
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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    Ian Kershaw’s biography of Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the definitive work on the subject, as well as one of the most brilliant biographies of our time. In Making Friends with Hitler, the great scholar shines remarkable new light on decisions that led to war by tracing the extraordinary story of Lord Londonderry—one of Britain’s wealthiest aristocrats, cousin of Winston Churchill, confidant of the king, and the only British cabinet member to outwardly support the Nazi party. Through Londonderry’s tragic tale, Kershaw shows us that behind the accepted dogma of English appeasement and German bullying is a much more complicated and interesting reality—full of miscalculations on both sides that proved to be among the most fateful in history.
    © Frank Hanewaker
    Ian Kershaw, author of To Hell and Back, The End, Fateful Choices, and Making Friends with Hitler, is a British historian of twentieth-century Germany noted for his monumental biographies of Adolf Hitler. In 2002, he received his knighthood for services to history. He is a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn, Germany. His newest book, Personality and Power, will be published in November, 2022. View titles by Ian Kershaw
    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

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    Ian Kershaw’s biography of Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the definitive work on the subject, as well as one of the most brilliant biographies of our time. In Making Friends with Hitler, the great scholar shines remarkable new light on decisions that led to war by tracing the extraordinary story of Lord Londonderry—one of Britain’s wealthiest aristocrats, cousin of Winston Churchill, confidant of the king, and the only British cabinet member to outwardly support the Nazi party. Through Londonderry’s tragic tale, Kershaw shows us that behind the accepted dogma of English appeasement and German bullying is a much more complicated and interesting reality—full of miscalculations on both sides that proved to be among the most fateful in history.

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    © Frank Hanewaker
    Ian Kershaw, author of To Hell and Back, The End, Fateful Choices, and Making Friends with Hitler, is a British historian of twentieth-century Germany noted for his monumental biographies of Adolf Hitler. In 2002, he received his knighthood for services to history. He is a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn, Germany. His newest book, Personality and Power, will be published in November, 2022. View titles by Ian Kershaw

    Table of Contents

    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

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