Richard Overy

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Richard Overy (b. 1947) has published extensively on the history of World War II and the Third Reich. Educated at Caius College, Cambridge he went on to teach at Queen's College from 1972 to 1979, before moving to King's College London in 1980. He taught at Kings College until 2004, being made professor of modern history in 1994. He moved to Exeter University in 2004. His work on World War II has been praised as "highly effective [in] the ruthless dispelling of myths" (A. J. P. Taylor), "original and important" (New York Review of Books) and "at the cutting edge" (Times Literary Supplement). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1977), Fellow of the British Academy (2000) and Fellow of King’s College (2003). In 2001 he was awarded the Samuel Elliot Morrison Prize of the Society for Military History for his contribution to the history of warfare.

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William Morris, Viscount Nuffield (1976), ISBN 0-900362-84-7
The Air War, 1939-1945 (1980; paperback ed. 2005), ISBN 1-57488-716-5
All Our Working Lives (with Peter Pagnamenta, 1984), ISBN 0-563-20117-7
Goering: The "Iron Man" (1984; paperback ed. 2000), ISBN 1-84212-048-4
The Origins of the Second World War (1987; 2nd ed. 1998), ISBN 0-582-29085-6
The Road To War (with Andrew Wheatcroft, 1989; 2nd ed. 1999), ISBN 0-14-028530-X
The Nazi Economic Recovery, 1932-1938 (1982; 2nd ed. 1996), ISBN 0-521-55286-9
The Inter-War Crisis, 1919-1939 (1994), ISBN 0-582-35379-3
War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994), ISBN 0-19-820290-3
Why the Allies Won (1995), ISBN 0-224-04172-X
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Third Reich (1996), ISBN 0-14-051330-2
The Times Atlas of the Twentieth Century (ed., 1996), ISBN 0-7230-0766-7
Bomber Command, 1939-45 (1997), ISBN 0-00-472014-8
Russia's War: Blood upon the Snow (1997), ISBN 1-57500-051-2
The Times History of the 20th Century (ed., 1999; new ed. 2003), ISBN 0-00-716637-0
The Battle (2000), ISBN 0-14-029419-8 (republished as The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality)
Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 (2001), ISBN 0-7139-9350-2 (republished as Interrogations: Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite)
Germany: A New Social and Economic History. Vol. 3: Since 1800 (ed. with Sheilagh Ogilvie, 2003), ISBN 0-340-65215-2
The Times Complete History of the World (6th ed., 2004), ISBN 0-00-718129-9
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (2004), ISBN 0-7139-9309-X
Collins Atlas of Twentieth Century History (2005), ISBN 0-00-720170-2