Question: How did historian Richard Overy describe the author of The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918?

Context articles: A. J. P. Taylor
Ann Spokes Symonds
Peter Longerich
1940: Myth and Reality
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
The Limestone Press
A Study of History
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918
What Would the Founders Do?
Richard Overy

Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy.
 Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his television lectures.
 His combination of academic rigour and popular appeal led the historian Richard Overy to describe him as "the Macaulay of our age".
Ann Spokes-Symonds is an author and former Lord Mayor of Oxford.
 Spokes, later Mrs Ann Spokes-Symonds, was born in 1925, the daughter of Peter Spokes and Lilla Clayton.
 Her father founded the Museum of Oxford in 1974.
 She is a writer on the history of Oxford.
 She entered St Anne's College, Oxford in 1944, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics; she now holds a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford.
 She is a trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust, having first become a trustee in 1959.
 She served as Lord Mayor of Oxford in 1976/77 and also as the Chairman of Oxfordshire County Council 1981-1983.
 She made a donation towards a statue of Alfred Russel Wallace which has been erected at the Natural History Museum.
 She married the United Nations official and historian Richard Symonds (1918-2006) in 1980.
Peter Longerich (born 1955) is a German professor of history.
 He is regarded by fellow historians, including Ian Kershaw, Richard Evans, Timothy Snyder, Mark Roseman and Richard Overy, as one of the leading German authorities on the Holocaust.
1940: Myth and Reality (ISBN  ) is a controversial 1990 book by Clive Ponting and published by Hamish Hamilton.
 It is a revisionist history of the Second World War, particularly the divergences between the rhetoric and the reality in relation to popular British narratives.
 The revisionism is different from that of, for example, "'The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality", a 2000 book by Richard Overy, and draws different (arguably more pessimistic) conclusions.
 The book caused a minor sensation when published, but few of the revelations were new, most having been published in other books in the previous 21 years.
"The Paranoid Style in American Politics" is an essay by American historian Richard J. Hofstadter, first published in "Harper's Magazine" in November 1964; it served as the title essay of a book by the author in the same year.
The Limestone Press is a one-man publishing house, established in 1972 by historian Richard Pierce (1918–2004).
 Pierce lived and worked at that time in Kingston, Ontario, and he chose the name from the nickname of Kingston, the “Limestone City”, which has its origins in its many limestone buildings.
 He published mainly books on Alaska’s history, mostly concerning its Russian era, but also on Ukrainian and African and other topics, as well as books dealing with Kingston’s history.
A Study of History is a 12-volume universal history by the British historian Arnold J. Toynbee, published in 1934–61.
 It received enormous popular attention but according to historian Richard J. Evans, "enjoyed only a brief vogue before disappearing into the obscurity in which it has languished."
 Toynbee's goal was to trace the development and decay of 19 world civilizations in the historical record, applying his model to each of these civilizations, detailing the stages through which they all pass: genesis, growth, time of troubles, universal state, and disintegration.
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918 is a scholarly history book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor.
 It was part of "The Oxford History of Modern Europe" published by the Clarendon Press in Oxford in October 1954.
What Would the Founders Do?
: Our Questions, Their Answers is a 2006 non-fiction book by American journalist and historian Richard Brookhiser.
 The author discusses the viewpoints, backgrounds, and character traits of the American Founding Fathers and compares and contrasts them with the socio-political debates of present-day Americans.
 Brookhiser states, "We can be as intelligent as they were, and as serious, as practical, and as brave."
 The book was published by Basic Books.
Richard James Overy (born 23 December 1947) is a British historian who has published extensively on the history of World War II and the Third Reich.
 In 2007 as "The Times" editor of "Complete History of the World", he chose the 50 key dates of world history.