With his astonishing range, the historian Dan Stone excavates the multiple causes and inhuman consequences of Europe’s catastrophic twentieth century. This priceless collection of essays brings together his many studies, ranging from little-known psychologists to famous philosophers, from race science to the Holocaust in Romania—among many other topics. Stone’s research casts an exacting eye on the perpetrators and an empathic eye on their victims. Taken together, Thinking Europe’s Catastrophe presents an unsparing analysis of the last century that provides the intellectual tools to interpret the current one. Unfortunately the warnings he sounds are going unheeded.
— A. Dirk Moses, City College of New York, and author of The Problems of Genocide.

This two-volume collection offers a most welcome introduction to Dan Stone’s amazing scholarship. A historian of breathtaking scope and reach, Stone’s probing analyses illuminate a vast range of issues. In these volumes, he takes on race, genocide, modernity and Nazism and, with an equally deft hand, an array of postwar historical and historiographical questions. In short: an outstanding contribution.
— Debórah Dwork, Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity, Graduate Center—City University of New York

Thinking Europe’s Catastrophe is a powerful collection that brings together decades of Dan Stone’s pioneering scholarship on fascism, genocide, and Holocaust historiography. Combining theoretical insight with precise archival research, these essays illuminate how ideas and historical practice shape our understanding of Europe’s darkest chapters, while speaking urgently to the present. This work stands as an essential contribution to modern European history and Holocaust studies.
— Christine Schmidt, The Wiener Holocaust Library

Dan Stone studied History in Oxford. Since 1999, he has worked at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute. Previously, Stone was a Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford. Stone is on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Holocaust Research and the Journal of Genocide Research, and is a member of the UK Oversight Committee of the Arolsen Archives; the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust’s Experts Reference Group; and the UK Government’s Advisory Group on Spoliation Matters. He was previously the chair of the academic advisory board for the Imperial War Museum’s revamped Holocaust Galleries, which opened in 2021. His previous books include: Histories of the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2010); Goodbye To All That? The Story of Europe since 1945 (OUP, 2014); The Liberation of the Camps (Yale University Press, 2015); The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (Penguin, 2023); Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (OUP, 2023); Psychoanalysis, Historiography and the Nazi Camps: Accounting for Survival (Palgrave, 2024); The Forgotten Holocaust: Romania 1940-1944 (Penguin, 2027). His papers have been published by, among other outlets: Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Journal of Modern History, Contemporary European History, East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, History & Memory, Journal of Contemporary History, and American Imago.