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Sebastian Haffner was 'one of the outstanding figures in European journalism' (Guardian, 1999). He emigrated to London from Berlin in the 1930s and became a vocal critic of the Nazi regime, writing influential articles in the Observer. After the war, he became Germany's pre-eminent political commentator. His many books include Germany: Jekyll and Hyde. Peter Hennessy is Professor of Contemporary History at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London, and Chairman of the Kennedy Memorial Trust. His books include Cabinet, Whitehall and Never Again: Britain 1945-51, for which he was awarded both the Duff Cooper Prize and the NCR Prize in 1993. John Brownjohn is a prize-winning translator and works with Roman Polanski.