Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of
Exeter and one of Britain's most distinguished historians and an
internationally renowned scholar of World War II. He is the
recipient of the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, the Wolfson History Prize,
the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize and is a Fellow of the British
Academy and the Royal Historical Society. His many works include
Blood and Ruins, The Bombing War, Dictators and The Morbid
Age.
"Overy is one of the great historians of the second world war."--
Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times (London)
"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 (London)
"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 (London)
"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 (London)
"One of the great historians of this conflict" -- Simon Garfield,
Observer (London)
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