Brush up your Hitler From: Teaching History | Date: February 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright The Historical Association Feb 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The Hitler of History

John Lukacs

Knopf 1987, L31.08 hard, ISBN 1--679-44649-4

Vintage Books 1888, L8.97 paper, ISBN 0-375-70113-3

Explaining Hitler

Ron Rosenbaum

Macmillan, 1998, L25.00 hard, ISBN 0-333-73457-2

When I started teaching history in the 1 970s, a lot of the work done in schools was a fact-heavy trudge through a string of mnemonics. Explanations were delivered (and learned by the pupils) as immutable truths. Given the exigencies of examination league tables, perhaps, I sense pressure to go back to this. But, fortunately, the National Curriculum requires teachers to address ...

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