Michael Burleigh

Michael Burleigh (born 3 April 1955) is a British historian, author, and commentator. He has written extensively on international relations, populism, terrorism, and modern European history. He was the first Engelsberg Chair of History and International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE) IDEAS centre.

Early life and education Burleigh was educated at University College London (UCL) where he was awarded a first in history in 1977. He later attended Bedford College, London where he received a PhD in history in 1982.

Career Burleigh has held academic posts at New College, Oxford and the London School of Economics (LSE). At Cardiff University, he was a Distinguished Research Professor in Modern History.

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The BBC said the book "is indeed a blunt and radical re-examination of the Third Reich".

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Award and honours Burleigh's book, The Third Reich: A New History (2000) won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2001. His book Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World 1945–65 (2013) was longlisted for the same prize in 2014.

The television documentary Selling Murder: The Killing Films of the Third Reich (1991), won a British Film Institute Award for Archival Achievement. Meanwhile Heil Herbie: The Story of the Volkswagen Beetle (1993) won a New York Film and Television Festival Bronze Medal. Selected works Selling Murder: The Killing Films of the Third Reich. London: Domino Films 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 (editor) Confronting the Nazi Past: New Debates on Modern German History (Palgrave Macmillan, 1996) 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 Sacred Causes: Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda. HarperCollins, 2006 Causas sagradas: Religión y política en Europa. De la Primera Guerra Mundial al terrorismo islami (TAURUS, 2006) Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism. Harper Collins, 2008 Moral Combat: A History of World War II. Harper, 2010 Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World 1945–65. Viking Press, 2013 Pequeñas guerras, lugares remotos: Insurrección global y la génesis del mundo moderno (TAURUS, 2014) Day of the Assassins: A History of Political Assassination. Picador, 2021. Populism: Before and After the Pandemic (Hurst, 2021)