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	The Battle of Britain (hardcover) (Main Page)
		In his brilliant, concise account, Richard Overy shrewdly analyzes every element of the battle on both sides, from the men and machines who fought and the tactics they employed to the leadership and their strategies.
		Overy believes that 'the consequences of British abdication in 1940 would have been a calamity not just for the British people but for the world as a whole'.
		Richard Overy is professor of modern history at King's College, London.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/spring01/002008.htm (749 words)

	Russia's War by R. J. Overy Richard Overy - The Dark Spiral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Overy argues it was the combined factors of economic mobilization, a flexible military command structure, and, most importantly, the enduring spirit on the Russian people that enabled Stalin's Russia to emerge victorious.
		Overy's coverage of mounted Cossack bands fighting alongside the Germans against their own countrymen; the Kaminsky Brigade slaughtering Polish civilians; Andrei Vlasov's change of ideological heart to form and lead an ill-fated Russian Liberation Army are topics not usually found in other treatments of the Russian front.
		Overy remarks that the purge of officers made no quantitative difference in the Red Army because of the influx of new officers at the same time, and by the time the war started, there was little qualitative difference.
	www.darkspiral.com /item/0140271694 (1853 words)

	Books \| Totalitarian recall
		Richard Overy's The Dictators is a double biography of Hitler and Stalin that manages to move beyond 'leaderology'
		Richard Overy's large book is the latest attempt to compare those two states and their societies.
		Overy's account neatly summarises the past two decades of scholarship on interwar Germany and Russia without going to the "revisionist" extreme of suggesting that the central state administration was merely the plaything of socio-economic forces.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4976940-99937,00.html (1371 words)

	Socialism Today - Russia's War
		RICHARD OVERY's book is a fine accompaniment to the BBC War of the Century series chronicling the Russian-German conflict during world war two.
		Overy provides a fascinating account, revealing how the Soviet Union was able to defeat the German Wehrmacht which, in 1941, had the best trained and most well equipped troops in the world, as well as the vast resources and manpower of a subjugated Europe at its disposal.
		As Overy reveals, the Red Army defeats of this period, which brought the Wehrmacht to the gates of Moscow, can be largely put down to the incompetent military leadership of Stalin, whose interference in the work of the Red Army commanders only served to turn Russian retreats into full-scale military disasters.
	www.socialismtoday.org /43/russiawar.html (739 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia - Richard Overy - Hardcover
		Overy sidesteps the simplistic debate over which dictator was more evil and focuses on how they, and the systems they created, were similar and different.
		For instance, Overy notes that both Hitler and Stalin created cults of personality, but for Hitler "personality was the defining criterion of leadership"; Stalin, on the other hand, emphasized Communist ideology first and embraced a personality cult only when he realized it could cement his stranglehold on power.
		Overy does not add much to what is known about these systems, though he does remark, usefully, that some of Hitler's early success came about because Germans were too embarrassed to confront him and that Stalin was no bumpkin, even if he didn't know how to handle an oyster fork.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?endeca=1&isbn=0393020304&itm=8 (1033 words)

	The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality (Richard Overy)
		Richard Overy is what you might call a revisionist historian, but don't hit the delete key on that account.
		Among Overy's interesting findings is that the British population really wasn't aware of the BOB at the time.
		Unlike most commentators, Overy doesn't believe that the British ability to read German codes was terribly significant.
	www.warbirdforum.com /overy.htm (475 words)

	Why the Allies Won : Reviews, Prices, Deals
		Richard Overy's book is a very good example of a strong analysis of the Second World War.
		Another thing is that Overy puts emphasis on the importance of the weather in the context of D-Day, but he doesn't do it in relation to the Eastern front.
		Overy cannot be faulted in his writing, showing and giving reasons for all the major events during the period and certainly has my appreciation by helping me through my A2 history course.
	www.medfools.com /shopuk/product/ASIN/039331619X/Why_the_Allies_Won.html (585 words)

	Richard Overy - Die Diktatoren - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Der renommierte britische Historiker Richard Overy analysiert diese beiden großen diktatorischen Regime des vergangenen Jahrhunderts.
		Richard Overy wagt sich mit seinem umfangreichen Buch, das Hitler und Stalin parallel betrachtet, auf ein "umstrittenes Feld" des Diktaturenvergleichs, stellt Ulrike Ackermann klar.
		Hier hat Overy sich nicht "intensiv genug" der Untersuchung dieser beiden Persönlichkeiten mit "geschärfter Begrifflichkeit" gewidmet und weder das in der Forschung angewendete Instrumentarium von Max Webers Theorie der "charismatischen Herrschaft" noch die zur Zeit aktuelle "Psychologie des Anomalen" für seine Untersuchung herangezogen, kritisiert der Rezensent.
	www.perlentaucher.de /buch/22302.html (622 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Overy offers many answers, some broad, others specific, all solidly grounded yet none alone sufficient to explain the outcome of World War II.
		...Although Overy recognizes the overwhelming impact of personality on the outcome of the war, his emphasis often seems strangely placed...
		...Overy takes for a starting point the view that "much of what we believe about the war is illusion...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V102I3P87-1.htm (1393 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Why the Allies Won (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Overy emphasizes that the outcome was not a foregone conclusion, as Western Liberal societies have argued since 1945.
		Overy also discussed the Anglo-American air war, which had little impact in 1942-43, but when the allied forces targeted the German industrial areas, they pulverized the German munitions manufacturing, so that in early 1945 Albert Speer conceded the war was over from his point of view.
		Richard Overy's excellent book takes a careful and painstaking look at both how and why the Aliies won what he contends was a much more closely fought war than traditional treatments of the matter would have us believe.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/039331619X?v=glance (2466 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Dictators by Richard Overy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		...Overy makes strenuous efforts to be evenhanded in his own critique of the two tyrannies, but even he occasionally falls into the trap...
		...Overy probably knows more about the still unassimilated congruence of the two systems than anybody else alive, and in the pages of this book he authoritatively sets out the evidence for all to see...
		...Richard Overy’s The Dictators is by no means the first work to compare the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, but it surpasses all others in breadth and depth...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V118I3P95-1.htm (1661 words)

	Observer \| On monsters and myths
		Overy sets out to show that this explanation is hopelessly crude.
		Overy asks what made the two regimes similar and what made them different.
		Constantly, Overy contrasts the universalism of Stalin's utopia, aimed at 'an equal and happy future', with Hitler's vision reserved for the Germanic race alone.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4962948-102280,00.html (995 words)

	Richard Overy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Overy has published extensively on the history of World War II and the Third Reich.
		He was professor of modern history at Kings College, London, but recently moved to Exeter University in 2005.
		King's College London: History Department: Professor Richard Overy
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Overy (159 words)

	Richard Overy - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Richard Overy is Professor of Modern History at King's College, London.
		As the Nazi leaders are killed, commit suicide or are captured, Allied army interrogations of the survivors reveal the true nature of the enemy.
		Here, Richard Overy explains why these are essential in understanding the Third Reich.
	penguinputnam.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000024466,00.html?sym=QUE (996 words)

	Why the Allies Won, W. W. Norton & Company, R. J. Overy, Richard Overy
		In fact, Overy writes, at one point during the war, the Luftwaffe had more than 425 different aircraft models in production, the result of different state agencies' and manufacturers' vying to push their models into the order of battle.
		Overy's scope is so wide and so fundamental, that he can be excused, if not forgiven, for this or that error of detail that may have surfaced.
		Overy also takes pains to emphasize, correctly, that the Eastern Front was the crucial theater of the war and highlights the incredible scale of combat on the Eastern Front.
	allentech.net /bookstore/item_039331619X.html (1499 words)

	Richard Overy - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Richard Overy is Professor of History at King’s College, London.
		As the Nazi leaders are killed, commit suicide or are captured, Allied army interrogations of the survivors reveal the true nature of the enemy.
		Here, Richard Overy explains why these are essential in understanding the Third Reich.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000024466,00.html?sym=QUE (1055 words)

	Brawl-Hall.com Forum - hitler vs stalin by richard overy
		Overy is especially strong on the economics of both regimes.
		Overy assumes that the same was true of Soviet society.
		Overy's comparison of the two systems is thorough and persuasive.
	brawl-hall.com /forums/printthread.php?t=67480 (5129 words)

	Alibris: Richard Overy
		Overy gained exclusive access to previously unavailable information from the former KGB, GRU, and presidential archives to assemble this definitive book that fully covers the Russian efforts to defeat the Axis powers in World War II.
		Acclaimed historian Overy opens a new window into the Third Reich, providing an intimate glimpse of the savage dictatorship in its death throes.
		Overy gives readers an absorbing study of Hitler and Stalin, ranging from their private and public selves, their ascents to power and consolidation of absolute rule, to their waging of massive war and creation of far-flung empires of camps and prisons.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Richard_Overy (493 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But when he points out the differences in their policies toward minorities and nationalities—Hitler adhered to a racial ladder, while Stalin, a Georgian, flip-flopped to suit his political goals—Overy's analytical strength and depth of knowledge emerges.
		Conceding that Alan Bullock's Hitler and Stalin (1991) is the standard dual biography, Overy tackles an old controversy about Hitlerism and Stalinism: the degree to which they are similar.
		Assessing kinship may strike nonhistorians as impertinent in the context of each system's mountain of victims, but Overy explains this work as a necessary empirical foundation for the historiography of the two dictatorships.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393020304 (463 words)

	Richard Overy - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Richard Overy, geboren 1947 in London, ist Professor für Zeitgeschichte am King’s College, London.
		Der renommierte britische Historiker Richard Overy analysiert diese beiden großen...
		Der britische Historiker Richard Overy hat die Protokolle dieser...
	www.perlentaucher.de /autoren/4376.html (273 words)

	The Soviet Army - Books - Russia's War by Richard Overy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Richard Overy's work on Russia's involment in the Second World War is a recommended one.
		He not merely examines the period in which the war occured, but examines Europe and Russia in the period leading upto the outbreak of war.
		Overy was also able to get exclusive access to archives that had been previously unaccessable, to produce new evidence that suggests that the Red Army was not merely a mass that overwhelmed the Germans, nor that German defeat was the result of logistic over-stretch and strategic bungling.
	www.sovietarmy.com /books/russiaswar.html (221 words)

	King's College London: History Department: Professor Richard Overy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In his 23 years at King’s College London, Richard Overy has significantly enhanced the College’s reputation as a centre for Modern History.
		His research is internationally famed and he is a scholar of outstanding quality and renown.
		Richard Overy’s work, compulsively readable yet of the highest academic calibre, has changed both popular and scholarly perceptions of the 20th century.
	www.kcl.ac.uk /humanities/history/staff/overy.shtml (366 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Russia's War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I am a confirmed fan of Overy's work, especially after reading his tome on "Why the Allies Won", in which he carefully examines the real reasons the Allies succeeded in a war that was much more closely contested than many observers appreciate.
		Here he concentrates on what has to be considered the most unlikely reversal of fortune in 20th century war history, the catastrophic yet also heroically successful defense, repulsion, and vanquishing of the Wehrmacht along a war front that was literally thousands of miles long.
		Yet the story Overy tells here is not a simple story of unexpected Soviet courage and success in the face of unbelievable odds; it is also a tale that details decades of wanton brutality within Russia itself, a nation hampered by its own trail of wave upon wave of murderous progroms and purges.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140271694?v=glance (3383 words)

	Why the Allies Won (Main Page)
		The Soviet Union had lost the heart of its industry, and the United States was not yet armed.
		Overy shows us exactly how the Allies regained military superiority and why they were able to do it.
		He recounts the decisive campaigns: the war at sea, the crucial battles on the eastern front, the air war, and the vast amphibious assault on Europe.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/spring97/why.htm (148 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| Richard Overy: We must not forget how war was won
		Richard Overy: We must not forget how war was won
		Richard Overy: It was the Soviet and Chinese sacrifice that made victory possible
		Imagine for a moment that around half the population of Great Britain - men, women and children - died in the second world war.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1478592,00.html (1101 words)

	WWGPro.DE Buchtipps: The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality (Richard Overy) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Rather, we're given statistics about how many were shot down during such and such a time and how many planes Britain was able to produce during the conflict.
		The author, Richard Overy, makes it quite clear, however, that he's not attempting to tell the comprehensive story of the Battle.
		Overy doesn't dispel the notion that the British defense of their homeland was any less valiant, but he does make certain to point out discrepancies between the reality and the mythical proportions that the Battle of Britain have acquired in the years since the Blitz.
	www.wwgpro.de /books-isbn-0393322971.html (616 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Book Review - Why the Allies Won - Richard Overy
		Overy, a professor of modern European history at the University of London, argues that ?there has always seemed something fundamentally implausible about the contention of bombing?s critics that dropping almost 2.5 million tons of bombs on tautly stretched industrial systems and war-weary urban populations would not seriously weaken them.?
		The author of important books on World War II, including a biography of Hermann Goering and the best overall account of the air war, Overy has produced a broad and insightful synthesis.
		Deftly and convincingly, Overy reminds students of World War II that although all history is contingent, war is perhaps the most uncertain of all human activities.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19960501fabook3921/richard-overy/why-the-allies-won.html (263 words)

	Amazon.fr : Livres en anglais: Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 is the latest book from Richard Overy, the acclaimed author of The Battle.
		Overy first considers the general issues, such as "Strategies of Denial" and "Final Retribution" before going on to produce what are essentially transcripts of some of the most memorable and chilling of the interrogations.
		As historian Overy (Russia's War) points out, though there was never any doubt about the criminality of the Nazi regime, subjecting that regime to judicial process was very risky: if the case were not proven, the...
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0670030082 (711 words)

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