Martin Kitchen is a British-Canadian historian, specialized in modern European history, with an emphasis on Germany. Professor Emeritus of history at Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000...

, he started teaching in 1966. He also taught at the Cambridge Group for Population Studies (Cambridge University).

He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £153 million. Magdalen is currently top of the Norrington Table after over half of its 2010 finalists received first-class degrees, a record...

 and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

. Throughout his career, Kitchen has served in several editorial boards such as the International History Review, the Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d'histoire and International Affairs. Kitchen's work has been translated into German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean and Chinese. He is internationally regarded as a key author for the study of contemporary history.

Fellowships and awards

Martin Kitchen is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada , may also operate under the more descriptive name RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada , is the oldest association of scientists and scholars in Canada...

 and the Royal Historical Society

Royal Historical Society

The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. The premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past, it is based at University College London...

. In 1978 was awarded with the
Moncado Prize of the American Military Academy. In 1983-84 he received the Simon Fraser University Research Professor award.

Books

• Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• The Third Reich: Charisma and Community (London: Longman, 2007)
• A History of Modern Germany, 1800-2000 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006)
• Europe Between the Wars, 2nd extended edition (London: Longman, 2006)
• Nazi Germany: A Critical Introduction (Stroud: Tempus, 2004)
• The German Offensives of 1918 (Stroud, Tempus, 2001)
• Kaspar Hauser: Europe’s Child (London and New York: Palgrave, 2001)
• The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
• The British Empire and Commonwealth: A Short History (London: Macmillan, 1996)
• Nazi Germany at War (London: Longmans, 1994)
• Empire and After: A Short History of the British Empire and the Commonwealth (Vancouver: Simon Fraser University, 1994)
• A World in Flames: A Concise History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia (London: Longmans, 1990)
• Europe Between the Wars (London: Longmans, 1988)
• The Origins of the Cold War in Comparative Perspective (with Lawrence Aronsen), (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988)
• British Policy Towards the Soviet Union, 1939-1945 (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1986)
• Germany in the Age of Total War (with Volker R. Berghahn), (London: Croom Helm; Totowa N.J.: Barnes and Noble, 1981)
• The Coming of Austrian Fascism (London: Croom Helm; Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1980)
• The Political Economy of Germany, 1815-1914 (London: Croom Helm; Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1978)
• Fascism (London: Macmillan, 1976)
• The Silent Dictatorship: The Politics of the German High Command, 1916-1918 (London: Croom Helm, 1976)
• A Military History of Germany: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1975)
• The German Officer Corps, 1890-1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)