Bernard Wasserstein is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Chicago and a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Born in London, he now lives in Amsterdam. His previous books include The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (CWA Gold Dagger Prize for Non-fiction), On the Eve- The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War (Yad Vashem International Book Prize), and Barbarism and Civilization- A History of Europe in Our Time.