Richard Overy: Has the Second World War Ended Yet?


Author: Andrew Keen April 27, 2022 Duration: 34:43
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Richard Overy: Has the Second World War Ended Yet?

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Richard Overy, author of Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945.

Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter and one of Britain’s most distinguished historians and an internationally renowned scholar of World War II. He is the recipient of the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, the Wolfson History Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize and is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. His many works include The Bombing War, Dictators, and The Morbid Age.


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