Alan Bullock

Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock ( born December 13, 1914 in Trowbridge, England; † 2 February 2004 in Oxfordshire ) was a British historian.

Life

Bullock was born in Trowbridge in Wiltshire, England, his father worked as a gardener and preacher. He studied history at Oxford ( His masters in history, he was one of Henry Theodore Wade- Gery and Ronald Syme ) and graduated in 1938, and then participate as a research associate of Winston Churchill on his book The History of the English-Speaking Peoples. During World War II he worked for the European Service of the BBC. After the war he taught at Oxford and founded the St. Catherine 's College.

With the book, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny Bullock 1952 published the first major biography of Adolf Hitler, the long time the standard work of the research was Hitler. His original thesis of Hitler as a purely opportunistic politicians in power has revised later Bullock. Today Hitler is considered ideologue its programmatically set out in "Mein Kampf" intentions pursued consistently in spite of all tactical maneuvers. In 1991, Bullock put the double biography Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives before.

Bullock was a lifelong supporter of the Labour Party. His moderate socialist views influenced his historical work, which he also wrote a three-volume biography of the trade unionists and Labour Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. In the seventies he was a member of a set up by the Labour Government Commission on the employees' rights. For his services Bullock in 1972 defeated a knight and raised in 1976 as Baron Bullock of Leafield in Oxfordshire to a Life Peer. In the same year he received an honorary doctorate from the Open University was awarded. In 2004, he died in a nursing home in the county of Oxfordshire.

Works

  • Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. London 1952 ( German Hitler. A study of tyranny. Droste, Dusseldorf 1953)
  • History, Civilization from its Beginnings. London 1962.
  • Mother Russia ( German Russia, yesterday and today. Humboldt, Munich 1971)
  • Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives. 1991 ( German Hitler and Stalin. Parallel Lives. Settlers, Berlin 1991)
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