Richard Overy

Richard Overy, 2015

Richard James Overy (born December 23, 1947 in London ) is a British historian whose specialty is the Second World War , especially the German-Soviet War .

Life

He studied at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge (BA 1969, MA 1972 and PhD 1977). In 1972/73 he was a Research Fellow at Churchill College and from 1973 to 1979 a Fellow and College Lecturer at Queens' College . From 1976 to 1979 he was Assistant University Lecturer, from 1980 to 1988 Lecturer and from 1988 to 1992 Reader. From 1992 he was Professor of Modern History at King's College London . In 2004 he moved to the University of Exeter .

Overy is a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of War in History . In 1989 he gave the Harmon Memorial Lecture in Military History at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and in 2010 the Lees Knowles Lecture at the University of Cambridge . In the 2014 Dutch television documentary The Days After Hitler , Overy was also interviewed as a British historian.

Overy is married for the third time and has five children.

Awards

• 1983: TS Ashton Prize , Economic History Society
• 1987: Cass Prize for Business Economy
• 1997: Fellow, Royal Historical Society
• 2000: Fellow, British Academy
• 2001: Samuel Eliot Morison Prize , Society for Military History
• 2003: Fellow, King's College London
• 2004: Wolfson History Prize , Wolfson Foundation
• 2005: Hessell-Tiltman Prize , English PEN

Fonts (selection)

• William Morris, Viscount Nuffield. 1976, ISBN 0-900362-84-7 .
• The Air War 1939-1945. 1980, ISBN 1-57488-716-5 .
• The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932-1938. 1982, ISBN 0-521-55286-9 .
• with Peter Pagnamenta: All Our Working Lives. 1984, ISBN 0-563-20117-7 .
• Goering: The "Iron Man". 1984, ISBN 1-84212-048-4 .
  • Hermann Goering. Lust for power and vanity. Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-55138-9 .
• The Origins of the Second World War 1987, ISBN 0-582-29085-6 .
• with Timothy Mason : Debate: Germany, “Domestic Crisis” and War in 1939. In: Past and Present. Number 122, February 1989, pp. 200-240.
• with Andrew Wheatcroft: The Road To War. 1989, ISBN 0-14-028530-X .
• War and Economy in the Third Reich. 1994, ISBN 0-19-820290-3 .
• The Inter-War Crisis 1919-39. 1994, ISBN 0-582-35379-3 .
• Why the Allies Won. 1995, ISBN 0-224-04172-X .
  • The roots of victory. Why the Allies won World War II. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Munich 2000, ISBN 3-421-05337-5 ; Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-61314-X .
    • The unpredictable victory. Richard Overy sheds new light on the outcome of the Second World War , review by Bernd Wegner, Die Zeit , No. 44/2000.
• The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Third Reich. 1996, ISBN 0-14-051330-2 .
• (Ed.): The Times Atlas of the Twentieth Century. (ed., 1996), ISBN 0-7230-0766-7 .
• Bomber Command 1939-1945. 1997, ISBN 0-00-472014-8 .
• Russia's War. Blood upon the Snow. 1997, ISBN 1-57500-051-2 .
  • Russia's war. 1941-1945. Translation: Hainer Kober. 2003 - 2nd edition, 544 pages. Rowohlt, Reinbek. ISBN 3-498-05032-X .
    • A world historical act. The British military historian Richard Overy explains why the Soviet Union succeeded in defeating the Hitler Wehrmacht , review by Wolfram Wette , Die Zeit , October 9, 2003.
    • Review by Hermann Graml , sehepunkte 4 (2004), No. 3.
• with Gerhard Otto & Johannes Houwink ten Cate (eds.): The “new order” of Europe. Nazi economic policy in the occupied territories. Metropol, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-926893-46-X .
• (Ed.): The Times History of the 20th Century. 1999; New edition 2003, ISBN 0-00-716637-0 .
• The Battle of Britain. 2000, ISBN 0-14-029419-8 .
• Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands. 2001, ISBN 0-7139-9350-2 .
  • Interrogate. The Nazi elite in the hands of the Allies in 1945. Propylaeen, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-549-07163-9 ; Ullstein, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-548-36781-1 .
• with Sheilagh Ogilvie (Ed.): Germany. A New Social and Economic History. Vol. 3: Since 1800. 2003, ISBN 0-340-65215-2 .
• (Ed.): The Times Complete History of the World. Sixth edition. 2004, ISBN 0-00-718129-9 .
• The Dictators. Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. 2004, ISBN 0-7139-9309-X .
  • The dictators. Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-05466-5 .
    • Dictatorships in comparison , review by Ulrike Ackermann , Deutschlandradio Kultur , October 2, 2005.
    • Impressive synthesis. Richard Overy compares the regimes of Hitler and Stalin , review by Hans-Ulrich Wehler , Die Zeit , October 13, 2005.
    • Reviews by Helmut Altrichter, Bernhard Chiari, Leonid Luks and Jürgen Zarusky , sehepunkte 6 (2006), No. 1.
• Collins Atlas of Twentieth Century History. 2005, ISBN 0-00-720170-2 .
• The Bombing War. Europe 1939-1945. Allen Lane, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-7139-9561-9 .
  • The bombing war. Europe 1939–1945. German by Hainer Kober . Rowohlt, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-87134-782-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Overy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Richard Overy  in the German Digital Library
• Search for Richard Overy in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Richard Overy on the University of Exeter website
• Richard Overy ( 7 July 2006 memento on the Internet Archive ) on the King's College London website
• Short biography and reviews of works by Richard Overy at perlentaucher.de
• Like the Wehrmacht, we've descended into barbarity , Commentary on the Iraq War in the Guardian , May 10, 2004
• "Hitler was influenced by Lenin" , interview with Der Spiegel , February 26, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry ( memento of June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the British Academy website , accessed on November 1, 2012.