Nicholas Stargardt

Nicholas Stargardt (born in 1962) is an Australian historian and author.

Stargardt is the son of a German-Jewish father and Australian mother. He was born in Melbourne, Australia and lived in Australia, Japan, England and Germany. He studied at King's College, Cambridge, and is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, United Kingdom where he teaches modern European history. He has written widely on the history of modern Germany, political and social thought and the Holocaust. He has two sons and is married to the historian Lyndal Roper.^[1]

He is the author of 'The German Idea of Militarism: Radical and Socialist Critics' (1994), an intellectual and political history of anti-militarist movements in Germany before the First World War, and of 'Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives under the Nazis' (2005), which offered the first social history of Nazi Germany in the Second World War through the eyes of children. He is currently writing a social history of Germany in the Second World War.

References

1. ^ http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=1254

Bibliography

• The German Idea of Militarism, 1994, Cambridge
• Witnesses of War - Children's Lives under the Nazis, Jonathan Cape, 2005, ISBN 0-224-06479-7

External links

• Biography - Oxford University
• Book Review - The Guardian
• Book Review - The Times

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