Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield and one of the world's leading atuthorities on Hitler. For services to history he was given the German award of the Federal Cross of Merit in 1994 and knighted in 2002, and he was awarded the Norton Medicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2004. He was the historical adviser to two BBC series, the prizewinning The Nazis: A Warning from History and War of the Century. He is the author of "The Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich, Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-45, and The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation.

Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris was shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Biography Award and the first Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis received the Wolfson Literary Award for History, the Bruno Kreisky Award in Austria for the Political Book of the Year, was jointly awarded the inaugural British Academy Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread Biogaphy Award.

(Cited from Making Friends with Hitler)