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Warum führen Menschen Krieg? Die Antworten auf diese Frage sind so vielfältig wie die Formen kriegerischer Konflikte selbst. Gehört Krieg zur menschlichen Natur, ist er Ausdruck eines aggressiven menschlichen Triebs? Wie hängt Krieg mit dem Wettbewerb um ökonomische Vorteile zusammen, wie verhält er sich zur Frage staatlicher Sicherheit? Was hat Krieg mit Religion und Ideologie zu tun, was mit dem Streben nach Macht oder mit den Veränderungen des Klimas?

Auf fesselnde Weise erkundet Richard Overy die Jahrtausende, von den Anfängen der Menschheit bis heute. Er rekonstruiert...

Mit dem Atombombenabwurf auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki im August 1945 wurde der Zweite Weltkrieg auf beispiellos zerstörerische Art beendet. Das Ereignis gilt bis heute als historische Zäsur, es hat die Welt für immer verändert. Doch wie konnte der Einsatz einer Bombe, durch die Hunderttausende Zivilisten starben, zur Kriegsstrategie werden? Wie konnten Wissenschaftler, Politiker und Militärs eine Massenzerstörung befürworten, die sie vor Beginn des Krieges nie unterstützt hätten?

Richard Overy, einer der bedeutendsten Zeithistoriker unserer Tage, rückt mit seiner Darstellung...

Hermann Goering was Hitler's most loyal supporter, his designated successor, and the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. One of the main architects of the Nazi regime, he was also instrumental in the creation of the Gestapo and directly ordered the Final Solution. But who was the man behind the carefully constructed mask?

Self-indulgent and ruthless, sybaritic and brutal, egotistical yet capable of self-effacement, weak-willed yet fiercely calculating, Goering was a contradictory, complex, and often buffoonish character. In this classic biography, Richard Overy takes the...

The ultimate work of historical reference

From cavemen to the Cold War, from Alexander the Great to global warming, from warfare through the ages to the great voyages of exploration, The Times Complete History of the World is the book that has all the answers.

This is the most comprehensive, authoritative and accessible work on world history available today. It has sold over 2.25million copies and has been translated into 18 other languages since its first publication in 1978. With a narrative scope covering the origins of mankind right through to the turmoil of the 21st century, this...

The Inter-War Crisis is a concise yet analytical overview of the rapidly-changing world between 1918 and 1939, covering the political, economic and social instability that resulted from the First World War and the eventual descent towards the fresh upheaval of the Second World War.

Revised throughout and containing a new range of illustrations, this third edition covers topics such as the Russian Revolution, the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the concepts of the end of civilization and the decline of the West, cultural and scientific responses to an age of anxiety and fear, and the ways in...

From acclaimed World War II historian Richard Overy comes this startling new history of the controversial Allied bombing war against Germany and German-occupied Europe. In the fullest account yet of the campaign and its consequences, Overy assesses not just the bombing strategies and pattern of operations, but also how the bombed communities coped with the devastation. This book presents a unique history of the bombing offensive from below as well as from above, and engages with...

Original, entertaining, and ever-surprising, The Twilight Years tells the story of how an abiding fear of war influenced English life in the aftermath of World War I. Britain had become a laboratory for modern thought and experimentations, from eugenics to Freud's unconscious. And drawing upon these innovative ideas and concepts, intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists-among them Arnold...