Frank McDonough

Frank McDonough (born April 17, 1957 ) is a British historian whose research focuses on German-British relations in the 20th century and the history of the Third Reich .

biography

Frank McDonough grew up in Liverpool's working-class Everton district in northern England . In the 1970s he worked as a travel agent and as an employee of an insurance company.

He studied modern and recent history at Balliol College and Oxford University , followed by a doctoral thesis at Lancaster University . Since 1989 he has taught at Liverpool John Moores University . In 2011 he was appointed professor.

research

McDonough argues that the appeasement policy was probably the only option the British government had in the 1930s under Neville Chamberlain . His biography of Sophie Scholl was reviewed as a "standard work".

Books

• The British Empire 1815-1914 , Hodder and Stoughton, 1994, ISBN 0-340-59376-8
• The Origins of the First and Second World Wars (Cambridge Perspectives in History) , Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-56861-7
• Neville Chamberlain, appeasement, and the British road to war , Manchester University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-7190-4832-X
• Hitler and Nazi Germany (Cambridge Perspectives in History) , Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-59502-9
• Conflict, Communism and Fascism: Europe 1890-1945 , Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-521-77796-8
• Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany (Cambridge Perspectives in History) , Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-521-00358-X
• Hitler, Chamberlain and appeasement (Cambridge Perspectives in History) , Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-00048-3
• Hitler and the Rise of The Nazi Party , Pearson Longman, 2003, ISBN 0-582-50606-9
• The Conservative Party and Anglo-German Relations, 1905-1914 , Palgrave MacMillan, 2007, ISBN 978-0-230-51711-0
• The Holocaust (with John Cochrane), Palgrave MacMillan, 2008, ISBN 978-0-230-20387-7
• Sophie Scholl: The Real Story Of The Woman Who Defied Hitler , Hardcover, The History Press, March 2009, ISBN 978-0-7524-4675-2
• Origins of the Second World War: An International Perspective (Editor: Frank McDonough), hardcover and paperback, Continuum, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4411-8593-8

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frank McDonough , The Phillips Interview, BBC Radio Merseyside , March 29, 2009.
2. ^ Humanities and Social Science Staff Profiles
3. ↑ English Historical Review , Vol. 114, (1999), pp. 499-501
4. ^ "Times Higher Educational Supplement," April 9, 2009, p. 50.

Web links

• Portrait of Frank McDonough on the Liverpool John Moores University website