Michael Burleigh, Master of His Time
Historian Michael Burleigh has won the prestigious Nonino International Master of his Time Prize.
Last month the historian Michael Burleigh was awarded the prestigious 2012 Nonino Master of his Time Prize at a ceremony in Italy. The prize was presented to Burleigh by the Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul.
The citation praised Burleigh’s ‘deep historical analysis’. His book, The Third Reich: A New History (Pan Macmillan, 2000), which won the 2001 Samuel Johnson Prize, was described as ‘masterly’. One can only agree. I have long held the opinion that it is simply the finest single-volume study of Nazi Germany ever written and urge anyone who has not read it to do so as soon as possible.
In fact, that goes for all Burleigh’s work. A scholar of considerable bravery and integrity, he has ploughed a lonely furrow, at some distance from the academic establishment, but producing an oeuvre of historical studies that is distinctive and brilliant.
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