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Richard Overy

Richard Overy
Richard Overy has written and edited more than thirty books, including Why the Allies Won, Russia’s War, The Twilight Years, 1939, and The Bombers and the Bombed. He is a professor of history at the University of Exeter, U.K.


The Many Wars Within the Last Great War

Richard Overy on the Second World War Made and the Fall of Global Empires
April 8, 2022  By Richard Overy
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