Author: Richard Overy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: won, allies
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1997-05-17
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 039331619X
ISBN-13: 9780393316193

Having won an unprecedented series of victories and acquired huge new territories in 1942, Germany and Japan seemed poised to dominate most of the world. A year later both empires were reeling back in the face of Allied assaults. The rapid turnaround, King’s College history professor Richard Overy writes, came about largely as a result of technological innovation and structural responsiveness. The Allies were able to convert their economies to a war footing with few institutional fetters, while the Axis powers imposed layers of bureaucracy that often competed internally. In fact, Overy w

Author: Richard Overy
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: effort, soviet, history, war, russia
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1998-08-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0140271694
ISBN-13: 9780140271690

As German armies stampeded through the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, Nazi politicians and Western statesmen alike predicted the USSR’s collapse. In Russia’s War, a balanced and acute portrayal of a combat theater that claimed more than 40 million Soviet lives, Richard Overy tells the story of how Stalin and his commanders held off defeat and engineered the most significant military achievement of the Second World War: the destruction of the Wehrmacht. Russia’s War is far from a tale of triumph, as the Russian capacity for resourceful creativity, desperate courage, and r

Author: Richard Overy
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: wars, britain, paradox, years, twilight
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2009-10-29
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 067002113X
ISBN-13: 9780670021130

From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern England By the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists-among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells-sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud’s unconscious, was a creeping fear that the West was staring down the end of civilization. In their home country of Britain, many of these fears were unfounded. The country had not suffered from economic collap

Author: Richard Overy
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: atlas, hist, reich, third, penguin, historical
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1997-07-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0140513302
ISBN-13: 9780140513301

An informative, one-volume handbook that documents the rise and fall of one of the most terrifying and destructive regimes in recorded world history. This atlas charts the rise and fall of Hitler’s Nazi state and examines the nature of Hitler’s power structurers both within his party and within Germany as a whole. Color and b&W illus. throughout.

Author: Richard Overy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: reality, myth, britain, battle
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-04-17
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0393322971
ISBN-13: 9780393322972

"A concise, penetrating account....This stirring book inspires an admiration for British courage."—New York Times Book Review The battle of Britain pitted the Hurricanes and Spitfires of the Royal Air Force against the Messerschmitts of Hitler’s Luftwaffe in the skies over England in 1940. It was immortalized in Churchill’s words, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few," but it has since been debunked by revisionists as an inconclusive and even strategically flawed encounter for the British. In this assessment of the battle, Richard Overy re

Authors:Richard Overy, Andrew Wheatcroft,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: revised, war, road
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2000-07-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 014028530X
ISBN-13: 9780140285307

Were leaders in Britain and France so scarred by the carnage of World War I that they failed to stand up to Hitler as he began his march through Europe, thus providing the spark that would become World War II? Was Czechoslovakia abandoned by Britain and France, sacrificed in the face of Hitler’s aggression? In The Road to War, acclaimed historians Richard Overy and Andrew Wheatcroft cogently piece together a globe fractured by war to show how conditions such as the lack of sophisticated intelligence-gathering techniques, limited communication, and events in the USSR and the Far East all

Author: R. J. Overy
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: economic, social, history, studies, new, recovery, nazi
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 1996-06-28
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0521552869
ISBN-13: 9780521552868

This is a fully revised and updated edition of R.J. Overy’s highly regarded survey of the Nazi economic recovery (first published by Macmillan in 1982). The performance of the German economy under the Nazi regime has been the subject of intense academic debate. Overy discusses the main areas of this debate, arguing that the war preparation that took place at this time was ultimately incompatible with long-term economic recovery, and that the German economic miracle did not occur until after 1945.Book DescriptionThe performance of the German economy under the Nazi regime has been the subj