Richard James Overy is a British historian who has published extensively on the history of World War II and the Third Reich. Educated at Caius College, Cambridge and awarded a research fellowship at Churchill College, Professor Overy taught history at Cambridge from 1972 to 1979, as a fellow of Queens' College and from 1976 as a university assistant lecturer. In 1980 he moved to King's College London, where he became professor of modern history in 1994. He was appointed to a professorship at the University of Exeter in 2004. His work on World War II has been praised as "highly effective in the ruthless dispelling of myths" (A. J. P. Taylor), "original and important" (New York Review of Books) and "at the cutting edge" (Times Literary Supplement.)[
Series
Books
War in the Pacific 1941-1945
2010
Goering
Hitler's Iron Knight
1984
20th Century
2012
The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932-1938
1982
The Road to War
1989
The Times Complete History of the World
2001
Blood and Ruins
The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945
2021
Why the Allies Won
1995
The Battle Of Britain
2001
Times Atlas of the 20th Century
1996
Britain at War, 1939-1945
From the Invasion of Poland to the Surrender of Japan
2011
War and Economy in the Third Reich
1994
The Air War
1980
Interrogations
The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945
2001
Why War?
2024
The Bombing War
Europe 1939-1945
2013
Collins Atlas of 20th Century History
2005
The New York Times Complete World War 2
All the Coverage from the Battlefields and the Home Front
2013
The Second World War Experience, Volume 1
2008
The Second World War
The Complete Illustrated History
2010
Bombers Command
1997
The Inter-War Crisis
Revised 2nd Edition
1994
The Birth of the RAF, 1918
2018
Rain of Ruin
Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan
2025
The Second World War Experience, Volume 2
2008
The Dictators
Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia
2004
War
A History in 100 Battles
2014
The Origins of the Second World War
1987
The Second World War Experince, Volume 3
Turning of the Tide 1942-44
2009
The Twilight Years
The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars
2009
World War II Chronicle
2007
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Third Reich
1997
Geopolitikens återkomst
striden om framtidens historia
2017
The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II
2015
RAF
The Birth of the World's First Air Force
2018
1939
Countdown to War
2009
Russia's War
A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945
1997
Battle of Britain Experience
2011
