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Name
  
Michael Burleigh

Role
  
Author


Awards
  
Samuel Johnson Prize

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Books
  
The Third Reich: A New Hist, Small Wars - Far Away Pla, Blood and rage, The racial state, Sacred Causes: The Clas

Education
  
University College London

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Michael Burleigh (born 3 April 1955) is a British author and historian whose primary focus is on Nazi Germany and related subjects.

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Education and career

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In 1977 Burleigh was awarded a first class honours degree in Medieval and Modern History from University College London, winning the Pollard, Dolley and Sir William Mayer prizes. After a Ph.D in medieval history in 1982, he went on to hold posts at New College, Oxford, the London School of Economics, and University of Cardiff where he was Distinguished Research Professor in Modern History. He has also been Professor of History at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, and Kratter Visiting Professor at Stanford University In 2002 he gave the three Cardinal Basil Hume Memorial Lectures at Heythrop College, University of London. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He founded the journal Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions and is on the editorial boards of Totalitarismus und Demokratie and Ethnic and Racial Studies. His books have been translated into Czech, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Spanish.

He has also been active in bringing history to television audiences. In 1991 he won the British Film Institute Award for Archival Achievement for the Channel 4/Domino Films documentary Selling Murder: The Killing Films of the Third Reich and a 1993 New York Film and Television Festival Award Bronze Medal for Heil Herbie: The Story of the Volkswagen Beetle (Channel 4/Domino Films).

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Burleigh serves on the advisory board of the magazine Standpoint and is a regular contributor. He won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction in 2001 for The Third Reich: A New History and the Nonino International Master of His Time Prize in 2012. His Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World 1945–65 was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2013. He writes regularly for The Times, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph.

Burleigh has been married since 1991 to Linden Burleigh, and they live in South East London.

Books

Michael Burleigh's books include:

  • Prussian Society and the German Order (Cambridge University Press, 1984)
  • Germany Turns Eastwards: A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
  • The Racial State: Germany 1933–1945 – with Wolfgang Wippermann (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
  • Death and Deliverance: Euthanasia in Germany 1900–1945 (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
  • Ethics and Extermination: Reflections on Nazi Genocide (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
  • Confronting the Nazi Past (St Martin's Press, 1995)
  • The Third Reich: A New History (Macmillan, 2000)
  • Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the French Revolution to the Great War (HarperCollins, 2005) ISBN 0-00-719572-9
  • Sacred Causes: Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda (HarperCollins, 2006) ISBN 978-0-00-719574-9
  • Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism (Harper Collins, 2008)
  • Moral Combat: A History of World War II (Harper, 2010) ISBN 978-0-00-719576-3
  • Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World 1945–65 (Viking Press, 2013)

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