Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He spent his earlier career teaching at Cambridge and at King's College, London. He has published over twenty books on the Second World War, the dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin and the history of air power. His most recent books include The Battle of Britain, The Dictators, The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation 1919-1939 and 1939: Countdown to War. He has edited the past three editions of the Times History of the World. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. In 2001 he won the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for his contributions to military history and in 2010 the James Doolittle Award for his contribution to aviation history. He is currently director of the Centre for State, War and Society at Exeter University.
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