Richard Overy
Richard James Overy FRHistS FBA (born 23 December 1947) is a British historian who has published on the history of World War II and Nazi Germany. In 2007, as The Times editor of Complete History of the World, he chose the 50 key dates of world history.[1]
Richard Overy
(1947-12-23) 23 December 1947
British
Historian
Studies on military history, especially the Second World War
Why the Allies Won, The Air War: 1939–1945
1977: Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society
2000: Fellow of the
British Academy
2003: Fellow of King's College
2004: , The Dictators: Hitler's Germany; Stalin's Russia
Wolfson History Prize
2005: , The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia
Hessell-Tiltman Prize
Overy was featured in the 2003 ITV documentary .
Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
Overy was featured in the 2006 BBC docudrama .
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
KGNU's Claudia Cragg – interview with Overy on "Countdown To War" for Remembrance Day (Veteran's Day) 2010.
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Overy was a featured commentator in the 2018 series .
Hitler's Circle of Evil
The Origins of The Second World War, edited by Patrick Finney, London: Edward Arnold, Hodder Education Publishers (1997), Third Edition (2008) 0-340-67640-X.
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Co-written with Timothy Mason: "Debate: Germany, 'Domestic Crisis' and War in 1939", pp. 200–240 in Past and Present, Number 122, February 1989; reprinted as "Debate: Germany, 'Domestic Crisis' and the War in 1939" in The Origins of The Second World War (1997).
Russia's War: Blood upon the Snow (1997), 1-57500-051-2. There was a companion 10-part television documentary series.
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The Battle (2000), 0-14-029419-8 (republished as The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality).
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Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 (2001), 0-7139-9350-2 (republished as Interrogations: Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite).
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Germany: A New Social and Economic History. Vol. 3: Since 1800 (ed. with , 2003), ISBN 0-340-65215-2.
Sheilagh Ogilvie
Imperial War Museum's Second World War Experience Volume 1: Blitzkrieg (2008), 978-1-84442-014-8.
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Imperial War Museum's Second World War Experience Volume 2: Axis Ascendant (2008), 978-1-84442-008-7.
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The Bombing War: Europe 1939–1945 (2013), 0713995610 (later published as The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940–1945, ISBN 978-0-670-02515-2).
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The British Academy, profile
Official register of fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge
Biography of Richard Overy, University of Exeter
List of publications by Overy