Making Friends with Hitler : Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War

by Kershaw, Ian (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780143036074
• ISBN10: 0143036076
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-25
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Ian Kershaw has taught at the University of Manchester, Ruhr University in Germany, and the University of Nottingham and is now professor of modern history at the University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Map: European Territorial Issues Between the Wars	xiv
Preface	xv
Prologue: A Patrician's Progress	1	(24)
1 Illusions and Delusions about Hitler	25	(40)
2 Downfall of the Air Minister	65	(53)
3 Nazi Friends	118	(55)
4 Lengthening Shadows	173	(45)
5 Hope at Last	218	(36)
6 End of the Dream	254	(42)
7 Out in the Cold	296	(32)
Epilogue: Mount Stewart, September 1947	328	(24)
Abbreviations	352	(1)
Notes	353	(99)
Archival Sources	452	(2)
List of Newspapers and Magazines Cited	454	(2)
List of Works Cited	456	(9)
Index	465