Martin Kitchen
Martin Kitchen (2009)
Personal details
Born	(1936-12-21)21 December 1936 (age 89) Nottingham, England
Nationality	British-Canadian
Residence(s)	Burnaby, Canada
Alma mater	University of London
Occupation	Professor of European History

Martin Kitchen (21 December 1936,Nottingham,England) is aBritish-Canadianhistorian, who has specialized in modern European history, with an emphasis onGermany. He is internationally regarded as a key author for the study of contemporary history.^[1]

Kitchen was educated atMagdalen College, Oxford, and the School ofSlavonic andEast European Studies at theUniversity of London.

Now Professor Emeritus of history atSimon Fraser University, Kitchen started teaching in 1966. He also taught at the Cambridge Group for Population Studies (Cambridge University).^[1]

Throughout his career, Kitchen has served in several editorial boards such as theInternational History Review, theCanadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d'histoire andInternational Affairs. Kitchen's work has been translated intoFrench,German,Polish,Portuguese,Spanish andChinese.

Kitchen is a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Canada and theRoyal Historical Society. In 1978, he was awarded the Moncado Prize ofThe Society for Military History. In 1983-84, he received the Simon Fraser UniversityResearch Professor award.^{[citation needed]}

Kitchen received the following reviews forSpeer: Hitler's Architect, a biography of the Nazi war criminalAlbert Speer. Writing in 2016Roger Moorhouse forHistory 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."^[2] 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."^[3]Jonathan Meades writing in theLondon 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."^[4]

• The Dominici Affair: Murder and Mystery in Provence (Lincoln, Nebraska: Potomac Books, 2017)
• Speer: Hitler's Architect,Description &Contents. (New Haven andLondon:Yale University Press, 2015)
• A History of Modern Germany: 1800 to the Present (2nd Edition), Wiley-Blackwell, 2011,ISBN 978-0-470-65581-8
• Rommel's Desert War: WagingWorld War II inNorth Africa, 1941–1943 (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• TheThird Reich: Charisma and Community (London: Longman, 2007)
• A History of Modern Germany, 1800–2000 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006)
• Europe Between the Wars, 2nd extended edition (London: Longman, 2006)
• Nazi Germany: A Critical Introduction (Stroud:Tempus Publishing, 2004)
• The German Offensives of 1918 (Stroud, Tempus, 2001)
• Kaspar Hauser: Europe’s Child (London and New York: Palgrave, 2001)
• The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
• TheBritish Empire and Commonwealth: A Short History (London: Macmillan, 1996)
• Nazi Germany at War (London: Longmans, 1994)
• Empire and After: A Short History of the British Empire and the Commonwealth (Vancouver: Simon Fraser University, 1994)
• A World in Flames: A Concise History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia (London: Longmans, 1990)
• Europe Between the Wars (London: Longmans, 1988)
• The Origins of theCold War in Comparative Perspective (with Lawrence Aronsen), (London: Macmillan; New York:St. Martin's Press, 1988)
• British Policy Towards theSoviet Union, 1939–1945 (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1986)
• Germany in the Age of Total War (withVolker R. Berghahn), (London: Croom Helm;Totowa, NJ:Barnes & Noble, 1981)
• The Coming ofAustrianFascism (London: Croom Helm;Montreal:McGill-Queen's University Press, 1980)
• The Political Economy of Germany, 1815–1914 (London: Croom Helm; Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1978)
• Fascism (London: Macmillan, 1976)
• The Silent Dictatorship: The Politics of the German High Command, 1916–1918 (London:Croom Helm, 1976,ISBN 0-85664-301-7)
• A Military History of Germany: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975)
• The German Officer Corps, 1890–1914 (Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1968)^[1]

• Sleeman, Elizabeth (2003),International Who's Who of Authors and Writers, London,Europa Publications, Page 301. (ISBN 1 85743 1790)

• Kitchen, Martin."The Man Behind Hitler. Special Features: Historian Q & A".American Experience.PBS. Retrieved4 November 2014.

• Living people
• 20th-century Canadian historians
• Canadian male non-fiction writers
• Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
• Alumni of the University of London
• Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
• Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
• Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
• 1936 births
• 21st-century Canadian historians

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