Martin Kitchen (December 21, 1936,

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, who has specialized in modern European history, with an emphasis on

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. He is internationally regarded as a key author for the study of contemporary history. Kitchen was educated at

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, and the School of Slavonic and

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Studies at the

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. Now Professor Emeritus of history at

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, Kitchen started teaching in 1966. He also taught at the Cambridge Group for Population Studies (

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). 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 ''

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''. Kitchen's work has been translated into French,

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and Chinese.

Fellowships and awards

Kitchen is a Fellow of the

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and the

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. 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

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. Writing in 2016

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for ''

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'' 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."

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writing in the ''

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'' 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'' (Lincoln, Nebraska: Potomac Books, 2017) * '' Speer: Hitler's Architect''
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and

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, 2015)
''A History of Modern Germany: 1800 to the Present''
(2nd Edition), Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, * ''

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's Desert War: Waging

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, 1941–1943'' (Cambridge:

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, 2009) * ''The

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: 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) * ''

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: A Critical Introduction'' (Stroud:

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, 2004) * ''The German Offensives of 1918'' (Stroud, Tempus, 2001) * ''

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: Europe’s Child'' (London and New York: Palgrave, 2001) * ''The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) * ''The

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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'' (

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: 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 the

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in Comparative Perspective'' (with Lawrence Aronsen), (London: Macmillan; New York:

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, 1988) * ''British Policy Towards the

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, 1939–1945'' (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1986) * ''Germany in the Age of Total War'' (with Volker R. Berghahn), (London: Croom Helm; Totowa, NJ:

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, 1981) * ''The Coming of

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'' (London: Croom Helm;

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: 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, ) * ''A Military History of Germany: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day'' (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975) * ''The German Officer Corps, 1890–1914'' (Oxford:

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, 1968)

References

*Sleeman, Elizabeth (2003), '' International Who's Who of Authors and Writers'', London,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kitchen, Martin 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