Richard Overy
Birth date: December 23, 1947
Richard Overy's Books
Heavy on facts this book takes you 'behind the scenes'. A very valid supplement to the more 'pure' air power accounts.
I think objectively this book is very well done. The author includes a lot of very detailed statistics but mixes them in with fun facts, first-hand anecdotes, and fascinating stories. However, for me, this was just more detail than I needed on the topic. I felt the story got bogged down by details o...
Richard Overy's work here is a neatly crafted examination of the interwar period. His main argument as a historian is to challenge that the period between 1919 and 1939 was a period of crisis rather than anything else. He sets out to define a period of crisis as being distinguishable from the common...
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