The Second World War Experience Volume 1: Blitzkrieg 1939-41
Richard Overy, Professor of History, University of Exeter, United Kingdom has published 17 books, includingRussia’s War,The Battle of Britain, andWhy the Allies Won, and edited a number of others. He has been general editor of theTimes History of the Worldfor the fifth, sixth, and seventh editions (which have now sold over one million copies worldwide), and wrote and edited the Times History of the Twentieth Century. He has won five prizes for his published work, including in 2005 the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, both forThe Dictators: Hitler’s Germany,Stalin’s Russia. In 2001 he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize by the Society for Military History. Richard Overy is also a regular contributor to theIndependent,Sunday Telegraph,Guardian, andThe Literary Review. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.