1939

Overy is one of the great historians of the second world war – Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times This country’s most distinguished historian of the Second World War … Overy’s book is easily the best account of Europe’s descent into the death and destruction that were Hitler’s element – Michael Burleigh Evening Standard Nail-biting … with rare narrative verve, he documents the ultimatums, emissaries, letters and increasingly desperate proposals that shuttled across Europe in the countdown to war – Ian Thomson Independent Even those who think they know it all about how war broke out will learn something from Richard Overy’s book – Simon Heffer Literary Review One of the great historians of this conflict – Simon Garfield Observer

Richard Overy has spent much of his career studying the intellectual, social and military ideas that shaped the Second World War, particularly in his books The Origins of the Second World War, The Inter-War Crisis, 1919-1939, Why the Allies Won, Russia’s War and The Morbid Age. Since 2004 he has been Professor in History at the University of Exeter. Richard Overy’s book, The Dictators- Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hessell Tiltman Prize.

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