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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

Richard James 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

2001: of the Society for Military History[7]

Samuel Eliot Morison Prize

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

William Morris, Viscount Nuffield (1976),  0-900362-84-7.

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The Air War: 1939–1945 (1980),  1-57488-716-5.

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The Nazi Economic Recovery, 1932–1938 (1982),  0-521-55286-9.

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Goering: The "Iron Man" (1984),  1-84212-048-4.

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All Our Working Lives (with Peter Pagnamenta, 1984),  0-563-20117-7.

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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).

The Road to War (with Andrew Wheatcroft, 1989),  0-14-028530-X.

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The Inter-War Crisis, 1919–1939 (1994),  0-582-35379-3.

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War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994),  0-19-820290-3.

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Why the Allies Won (1995),  0-224-04172-X.

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The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Third Reich (1996),  0-14-051330-2.

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The Times Atlas of the Twentieth Century (ed., 1996),  0-7230-0766-7.

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Bomber Command, 1939–45 (1997),  0-00-472014-8.

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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 Times History of the 20th Century (1999),  0-00-716637-0.

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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

The Times Complete History of the World (6th ed., 2004),  0-00-718129-9.

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The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (2004),  0-7139-9309-X.

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Collins Atlas of Twentieth Century History (2005),  0-00-720170-2.

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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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1939: Countdown to War (2009),  978-960-16-3467-8.

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The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars (2009),  978-0-7139-9563-3.

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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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A History of War in 100 Battles (2014),  9780007452507.

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RAF: The Birth of the World's First Air Force (2018),  978-0-393-35724-0

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Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931–1945 (2021),  978-0-713-99562-6

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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

Google Scholar

on C-SPAN

Appearances