The traditional image of a political assassin is a lone wolf with a gun, aimed squarely at the he...

'Written with Burleigh's characteristic brio, with pithy summaries of historical moments (he is b...

In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western...

Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazi regime in Germany tried to restructure a 'class' society along rac...

Michael Burleigh's The Third Reich presents a major study of one of the twentieth century's darke...

A sweeping history of the Cold War’s many “hot” wars born in the last gasps of empire The Cold Wa...

In this sweeping and deeply penetrating work, distinguished historian Michael Burleigh explores t...

The collapse of Western colonial empires in the twenty years after the Second World War led to a ...

Beginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape, in which religious belief was one way of r...

Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a...

Explores how the present 'age of anger' has been abetted by elites, autocrats and the legacy of e...

A major work setting out the inextricable link between politics and religion over the past two ce...

In this sweepingly ambitious history, Michael Burleigh explores the moral sentiments of the socie...

In this riveting book, Michael Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context, showing how the ...