Professor Sir Ian Kershaw (born April 29 1943 in Oldham, Lancashire, England) is a British historian, noted for his biographies of Adolf Hitler. Educated at St Bede's College, Manchester, Liverpool and Oxford Universities, he was originally trained as a medievalist but turned to the study of German history in the 1970s. Wikipedia
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The knighthood awarded to Professor Ian Kershaw is just the latest in a long line of plaudits for the best-selling historian, explains Andrew Walker of the BBC's News Profiles Unit. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2045979.stm
Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield and one of the world's leading authorities on Hitler. www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000045443,00...