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 recently moved to Exeter University in 2004. His work on World War II has been praised as "highly effective ^* 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.

Publications

• Why The Allies Won ISBN 022404172X
• William Morris, Viscount Nuffield
• The Air War, 1939-1945
• Dictators ISBN 071399309X
• The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia ISBN 0393020304
• The Nazi Economic Recovery, 1932-1938 ISBN 0521552869
• Goering: The Iron Man
• All Our Working Lives (with Peter Pagnamenta) ISBN 0563201177
• The Origins Of The Second World War ISBN 0582290856
• The Road To War (with Andrew Wheatcroft) ISBN 0333441826
• War And Economy In The Third Reich ISBN 0198205996
• The Inter-War Crisis, 1919-1939 ISBN 0582353793
• Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 ISBN 0140271694
• The Battle: Summer 1940 ISBN 0140294198

External links

• King's College London: History Department: Professor Richard Overy (until 2004)
• University of Exeter: History Department: Professor Richard Overy (since 2004)

1947 births | Living people | Fascist/Nazi era scholars and writers

Richard Overy