Professor Richard Overy: "Chronologies: Blood and ruins. The Great Imperial War 1931-1945'

"A commanding global history of the Second World War."

Professor Richard Overy’s latest book, "Blood and Ruins" invites us to consider the war as primarily an imperial conflict and recasts the way in which we view the Second World War, its origins and aftermath. Overy argues that this 'great imperial war’ was a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the empire building of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s. His text sits within recent historiography on the Second World War which overthrows conventional chronologies and repositions the conflict within an expanded temporal timeframe. Blood and Ruins was a New York Times Bestseller and winner of the 2022 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History.

Professor Richard Overy

Professor Overy is an award-winning historian and leading authority on the Second World War. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter and has published widely on the history of the Hitler and Stalin dictatorships, the Second World War and air power in the twentieth century. 

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