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Richard Overy is Professor in History at the University of Exeter. Formerly Professor of Modern History at King's College, London, his books include William Morris, Viscount Nuffield, The Air War, 1939-1945 The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, The Nazi Economic Recovery, 1932-1938, Goering: The Iron Man All Our Working Lives (with Peter Pagnamenta), The Origins Of The Second World War, Why the Allies Won, War And Economy In The Third Reich, The Inter-War Crisis, 1919-1939, Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945, and The Battle: Summer 1940. Andrew Wheatcroft was educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead, Christ's College Cambridge, and the University of Madrid. He is the author of many books on early modern and modern history, and most recently The Ottomans (Penguin 1995) and The Habsburgs (Penguin 1996). During the writing of Infidels, on which he has been working for more than seventeen years, he has researched in Austria, Bahrain, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jordan Morocco, Spain, Turkey, the UAE, and the United States of America. His earlier books have been translated into Arabic, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Spanish, and Turkish. He is based in Dumfriesshire, Scotland and is currently Director of The Centre for Publishing Studies and also teaches in the Department of English Studies, at the University of Stirling.
The best short work on the origins of the second world war. It is a masterpiece of compression * Literary Review * Stimulating and enjoyable... essential reading * Guardian * Well-written, authoritative -- Norman Stone * Sunday Times * The authors combine passion with understanding to make sound historical sense * The Economist * It is mesmerising to read about a world careering to hell * Independent *
