Frederick Taylor (historian)

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Frederick Taylor (born December 28, 1947 in Aylesbury , Buckinghamshire , England ) is a British writer, journalist and historian .

Life

Frederick Taylor studied New History and German at Oxford University and did research after completing his studies at Sussex University , where he did his doctoral thesis on the rise of right-wing extremist parties in Germany before the First World War. He received a scholarship from the Volkswagen Foundation and was able to carry out the research for his work in the Federal Republic as well as the GDR.

In 1982 Taylor translated Joseph Goebbels' diaries from 1939 to 1941 into English. He then published some novels. Later he wrote historical non-fiction books. His book Dresden , published in 2004 . Tuesday, February 13, 1945 , which appeared in German that same year, deals with the air raids on Dresden , especially the Royal Air Force's part in them. The book was controversial in Germany and the UK.

In 2006 Taylor published the book The Berlin Wall , which was also published in German in 2009. In his book Exorcising Hitler (2011) Taylor deals with the occupation and denazification of Germany from 1944 to 1946, which, according to Klaus-Dietmar Henke, was quite controversial in the German historians' guild in his review of the book in the FAZ .

Taylor is a member of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain. He lives in Cornwall with his wife, the writer Alice Kavounas .

Works (selection)

  • Dresden. Tuesday, February 13, 1945 . London 2004. In German as:
    • Dresden, February 13, 1945. Military logic or sheer terror? Bertelsmann, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-00625-2 .
  • Strategic significance of the Allied bombing war. Dealing with doom . In: Lothar Fritze, Thomas Widera (ed.): Allied bombing war . V & R unipress, Göttingen 2005.
  • The Berlin Wall (2006; German The Wall , 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-55114-1 )
  • Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany . London 2011. In German as:
  • The Downfall of Money. Germany's Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class - A Cautionary History . Bloomsbury Publishing, London, England 2013.
    • German: The fall of money in the Weimar Republic and the birth of a German trauma . Siedler, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8275-0011-3 .
  • 1939: The War Nobody Wanted. A people's history. Picador.
    • German: The war that nobody wanted. British and German: Another story of 1939. Translated from the English by Helmut Dierlamm, Heide Lutosch. Siedler, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-8275-0113-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See works.
  2. ↑ FAZ , December 19, 2011 under the title Walking attempts of the defeated Germans. Frederick Taylor fails with his book about the occupation and denazification in the years 1944 to 1946. (online on Bücher.de [1] )
  3. ↑ Christian Siedenbiedel: The trauma of inflation. In Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on October 6, 2013, page 34.
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Aylesbury