Paul Jankowski

 ( 21st-century American Historians ) 

Paul Jankowski (born July 8, 1950) is an American historian and the Raymond Ginger Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University.

Raised in Europe and the United States, Jankowski attended Balliol College, Oxford for both his undergraduate and graduate degrees, target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Author information at HarperCollins Publishers (accessed 1/4/2021). completing his doctoral dissertation on Simon Sabiani and the rise of fascism and the French Parti Populaire Français in Marseille. Paul Jankowski, "Fascism in Marseille, 1936-1944," D.Phil thesis, University of Oxford, 1987.

Jankowski specializes in the history of modern France and modern Europe, the Military history, and the history of international relations in the interwar period. Faculty profile In addition to his study of Sabiani, he has published books on the Stavisky affair, political scandals in France, and the Battle of Verdun. His latest book, All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War, is a narrative history of several events and developments, primarily in Europe and the United States, between November 1932 and April 1933, including Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president of the United States, and the first Japanese Operation Nekka.

• Communism and Collaboration: Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille 1919–1944 (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989; ).
• Cette vilaine affaire Stavisky. Histoire d'un scandale politique (Paris: Editions Artheme Fayard, 2000).
• Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002; ). Financial swindlers Pro and con
• Shades of Indignation. Political Scandals in France, Past and present. (Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 2008; ).
• Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014; ). History News Network, 2014 Laurier Centre, 2015
• All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War (New York: Harper, 2020; ).

• Jankowski's remarks on the centenary of Verdun in The New York Times
• "The Myths of Verdun": , via the official channel of the National World War I Museum and Memorial
• "Paul Jankowski on All Against All," interview with Andrew Keen of KeenOn, on Now TV.