Richard Overy Journalist Profile

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Live from the Doha Forum: The Middle East after Assad

Dec 9, 2024 | ecfr.eu | Richard Overy |Julien Barnes-Dacey |Ellie Geranmayeh |Mark Leonard

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Mussolini chciał stworzyć nową wersję starożytnego Rzymu. Jak próbował budować swoje włoskie imperium?

Dec 4, 2024 | ciekawostkihistoryczne.pl | Richard Overy

Mussolini już w 1919 roku twierdził, że imperializm jest „odwiecznym i niezmiennym prawem życia”, a przez całe swe dyktatorskie rządy nie zrezygnował z zamiaru budowy imperium włoskiego w basenie Morza Śródziemnego i w Afryce, które miało być nowoczesną wersją starożytnego Rzymu.
Women, wine and two wars – the secret life of Robert Bruce Lockhart

Aug 29, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Richard Overy

Diplomat and writer Robert Bruce Lockhart at home in Edinburgh in 1955 Credit: Malcolm Dunbar The Scottish diplomat and journalist Robert Bruce Lockhart might well be regarded as a “bounder”, a term his early-20th-century contemporaries would have used if asked. He flagrantly and publicly advertised his faithlessness to his long-suffering wife, and regularly drank himself into debt with all-night binges; on the face of it, he was a poor example to his generation. Yet, as James Crossland...
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review

Aug 27, 2024 | historytoday.com | Richard Overy

There is a deliberate echo in Richard Evans’ new study of actors and perpetrators in the Third Reich of the classic book written by the German journalist Joachim C. Fest, The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership, now more than 60 years ago. Like Fest, Evans has chosen to focus on key figures from Hitler’s entourage alongside perpetrators of the regime’s crimes and a sample of other fellow-travellers from most walks of life.
Why it’s too late to stop World War 3

Jul 19, 2024 | defconwarningsystem.com | Richard Overy

Imagine, for a moment, that the Iranian government announces it has developed a nuclear bomb and threatens to use it on Israel. The United States reacts with the threat of military intervention, as it did in 1991 and 2003 in Iraq. Iran signals that it will not tolerate a third Gulf war and looks for allies. American forces mass to enter Iran, which orders national mobilisation.
Why it’s too late to stop World War 3 – according to one of Britain’s greatest military historians

Jun 23, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Richard Overy

Apocalypse now: a nuclear test in French Polynesia, 1970 Credit: Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo Imagine, for a moment, that the Iranian government announces it has developed a nuclear bomb and threatens to use it on Israel.
Why it’s too late to stop World War 3

Jun 23, 2024 | msn.com | Richard Overy

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Why it’s too late to stop World War 3

Jun 23, 2024 | msn.com | Richard Overy

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Why it’s too late to stop World War 3

Jun 23, 2024 | yahoo.com | Richard Overy

Imagine, for a moment, that the Iranian government announces it has developed a nuclear bomb and threatens to use it on Israel. The United States reacts with the threat of military intervention, as it did in 1991 and 2003 in Iraq. Iran signals that it will not tolerate a third Gulf war and looks for allies. American forces mass to enter Iran, which orders national mobilisation.
Jonathan Boff - Fighting Talk

Jun 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Richard Overy

On 15 December 1969, cities all over the world woke up to billboards proclaiming, ‘War is Over!’ Paid for by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the advertisement was not, of course, meant as a statement of fact. It was an appeal to stop the fighting and dying in Biafra and Vietnam. As ever, you had to read the small print beneath the banner headline: ‘If you want it.’ Lennon and Ono were using the techniques of selling soap to promote peace over the rival brand of war.