Robert Gerwarth

A gripping work of history in the tradition of Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers In this highly original and gripping book, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part, it was not the fighting on the Western front which proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath. Countries...

A chilling biography of the head of Nazi Germany’s terror apparatus, Reinhard Heydrich—a key player in the Third Reich whose full story has never before been told. “Gerwarth dispassionately examines Heydrich’s rise and assassination, which resulted in a horrific series of Nazi reprisals in Czechoslovakia. The best account of Heydrich.”—Jacob Heilbrunn, The Daily Beast “Meticulously takes us inside the Third...