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Editor’s pick: Ian Kershaw on postwar Europe

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this episode from our archive, Ian Kershaw offers his take on how the continent has developed since the Second World War In this archive episode from 2018, recorded to mark HistoryExtra’s 500th episode, historian Sir Ian Kershaw offers his take on how the continent has developed over the past seven decades since the Second World War. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

0:50.3

I'm Ellie Cawthorne.

0:56.4

For today's podcast, we're bringing you an editor's pick,

1:00.2

in which a member of our team chooses one of their own personal highlights from our back catalogue.

1:05.5

Today's episode was the choice of our content director, Dave Musgrove.

1:10.1

Despite being a committed medievalist,

1:12.5

Dave has somewhat unexpectedly chosen a conversation about the post-war world.

1:17.3

With the historian Sir Ian Kirschor, many aions ago,

1:21.3

Ian was in fact the very first guest to ever appear on the History Extra podcast,

1:26.2

and Dave spoke to him again in 2018 for our 500

1:29.9

episode. That's the conversation you'll hear today. I'm here with Sirian Kershaw, one of the leading

1:36.2

historians of Hitler and Nazi Germany. Your new book, however, Roller Coaster, Europe 1950 to 2017,

1:43.4

explores post-war Europe. You actually started your career as a

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