Ian Kershaw, Jeremy Paxman

The great British historian Ian Kershaw turns his formidable intellect to understanding the previous century.

To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 sets out to examine 'how Europe sank into the abyss during the first half of such a violent, turbulent century, but then, remarkably, already within four years of reaching rock-bottom in 1945, how it began to lay the platform for astonishing recovery – for a new Europe to emerge from the ashes of the old and to embark on the road back from hell on earth'.