Martin Kitchen
Martin Kitchen is a British-Canadian historian, who has specialized in modern European history, with an emphasis on Germany. He is internationally regarded as a key author for the study of contemporary history.
Kitchen was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London.
Now Professor Emeritus of history at Simon Fraser University, Kitchen started teaching in 1966. He also taught at the Cambridge Group for Population Studies.
Throughout his career, Kitchen has served in several editorial boards such as the International History Review, the Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d'histoire and International Affairs. Kitchen's work has been translated into French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese.
Fellowships and awards
Kitchen is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Historical Society. In 1978, he was awarded the Moncado Prize of The Society for Military History. In 1983-84, he received the Simon Fraser University Research Professor award.Reviews
Kitchen received the following reviews for Speer: Hitler's Architect, a biography of the Nazi war criminal Albert Speer. Writing in 2016 Roger Moorhouse for History Today said "Kitchen is brilliant and brutal, exposing every aspect of his subject’s story to stern scrutiny. He begins at the very start, showing that even Speer’s tale of his birth was a lie." The Kirkus Review said "Kitchen sets the record straight on Albert Speer’s assertions of ignorance of the Final Solution and claims to being the good Nazi." Jonathan Meades writing in the London Review of Books said "Speer: Hitler’s Architect is not a biography. It is a 200,000-word charge sheet. Kitchen is steely, dogged and attentive to the small print. He shows Speer no mercy, nailing his every exculpatory ruse and demonstrating time and again how provisional the notion of truth was to him."Books
The Dominici Affair: Murder and Mystery in Provence Speer: Hitler's Architect, &- , Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941–1943 The Third Reich: Charisma and Community A History of Modern Germany, 1800–2000 Europe Between the Wars, 2nd extended edition Nazi Germany: A Critical Introduction The German Offensives of 1918 Kaspar Hauser: Europe’s Child The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany The British Empire and Commonwealth: A Short History Nazi Germany at War Empire and After: A Short History of the British Empire and the Commonwealth A World in Flames: A Concise History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia Europe Between the Wars The Origins of the Cold War in Comparative Perspective, British Policy Towards the Soviet Union, 1939–1945 Germany in the Age of Total War, The Coming of Austrian Fascism The Political Economy of Germany, 1815–1914 Fascism The Silent Dictatorship: The Politics of the German High Command, 1916–1918 A Military History of Germany: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
- ''The German Officer Corps, 1890–1914''