by Ian Kershaw · Editorial Crítica · tapa dura · ISBN 9788491994466
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The 20th century witnessed the rise of rulers who dominated a wide variety of instruments of control, persuasion, and death. In the context of profound social changes and ruthless wars, these leaders somehow gained the ability to do whatever they wanted regardless of the consequences for others. What did these leaders and the era in which they lived have that allowed them such unlimited power? And what brought that era to an end?
In a convincing and lucid manner, Ian Kershaw proposes a series of interpretive essays on the way in which some politically unusual personalities obtained and exercised power, from those who operated on a large scale such as Lenin, Stalin, Hitler or Mussolini, to those who had a more national impact such as Tito and Franco, passing through other fundamental names of the 20th century such as Churchill, de Gaulle, Adenauer, Gorbachev, Thatcher and Kohl.
Sir Ian Kershaw is an English historian whose work has chiefly focused on the social history of 20th-century Germany. He is regarded by many as one of the world's foremost experts on Nazi Germany and noted for his biography of Adolf Hitler.
