作者介紹
作者介紹 Sebastian Haffner was born in Berlin in 1907, and died in 1999. In 1938, he was forced to flee to Britain, where he worked as a journalist. While living in Britain, he adopted the pseudonym Sebastian Haffner in place of his given name, Raimund Pretzel, to protect relatives still in Germany. In 1954, he returned to Germany and became a distinguished historian, commentator, and journalist. He published numerous historical books, many about twentieth-century Germany. Oliver Pretzel, Sebastian Haffner's son, is the translator of this work. He has also served as Honorary Principal Research Fellow in the department of mathematics at Imperial College London.