Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe Author : Ian Kershaw ISBN-13 : 978-0241532416 Publisher : Allen Lane Guideline Price : £30 “The history of what man has accomplished in this world,” wrote Thomas Carlyle in 1840, “is at bottom the History of the Great Men.” Historians have long moved away from such an interpretation of human events, but in the era of Putin, Trump and others, the looming figure of the giant personality that bends history to her, or mostly his, will has returned. In this selection of essays on 12 such figures who built and destroyed...