{"title":"Martin Kitchen","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartin Kitchen offers a compelling exploration of modern history through meticulously researched biographies and comprehensive historical analyses. His works delve into the complexities of Germany’s past, providing readers with insightful perspectives on key figures and events that shaped the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a scholarly yet accessible approach, Kitchen’s books appeal to those interested in \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e as well as \u003cem\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e. His clear narrative style makes intricate historical subjects approachable while retaining academic rigour.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"speer-by-martin-kitchen-9780300226416","title":"Speer","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new biography of Albert Speer, Hitler’s chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject’s deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Kitchen, the author of a dozen works on twentieth-century Germany, comprehensively disassembles Speer's alibis and excuses. . . . His mastery of the revisionist evidence against Speer is complete.\"—John Fund, \u003cem\u003eNational Review Online\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Brilliant and devastating. . . . 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In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer’s lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served so well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKitchen reconstructs Speer’s life with what we now know, including information from valuable new sources that have come to light only in recent years, challenging the portrait presented by earlier biographers and by Speer himself of a cultured technocrat devoted to his country while completely uninvolved in Nazi politics and crimes. The result is the first truly serious accounting of the man, his beliefs, and his actions during one of the darkest epochs in modern history, not only countering Speer’s claims of non-culpability but also disputing the commonly held misconception that it was his unique genius alone that kept the German military armed and fighting long after its defeat was inevitable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855846101228,"sku":"9780300226416","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24261903482294.jpg?v=1759280690"},{"product_id":"a-history-of-modern-germany-by-lauren-faulkner-rossi-9781119746386","title":"A History of Modern Germany","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA History of Modern Germany\u003c\/em\u003e provides a comprehensive account of the social, political, and economic history of Germany from 1800 to the present. Written in an engaging and accessible narrative style, this popular textbook offers an expansive view of the nation’s complex and fragmented past, tracing the development of the German national consciousness through Napoleonic rule, the unification of Germany, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, post-war division, the collapse of Communism, reunification, and the first two decades of the 21st century. Throughout the text, the authors discuss the tensions prompted by structural changes within Germany, long-term shifts in demographics, social and economic reforms, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow in its third edition, \u003cem\u003eA History of Modern Germany\u003c\/em\u003e offers richer coverage of German cultural history, the German Democratic Republic, modernization, class, religion, and gender. 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