In this episode from our archive, Ian Kershaw offers his take on how the continent has developed since the Second World War
In this archive episode from 2018, recorded to mark HistoryExtra’s 500th episode, historian Sir Ian Kershaw offers his take on how the continent has developed over the past seven decades since the Second World War.
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