Profile
Michael Burleigh has taught at Oxford, LSE and Cardiff, and has been a Visiting Professor at Rutgers, Washington and Lee, and Stanford universities.
His previous book, Earthly Powers, was one of the most acclaimed books of 2005. His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and his The Third Reich: A New History won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.
He has also won three major film awards for historical television documentaries, including the British Film Institute Award for Archival Achievement. He writes for several newspapers on religion, history and politics.
He is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Insitut fur Zeitgeschichte in Munich and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is also Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution for War, Peace and Revolution at Stanford.
