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According to Wikipedia, Richard James Overy is a British historian who has published on the history of World War II and Nazi Germany. In 2007, as The Times editor of Complete History of the World, he chose the 50 key dates of world history.

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Why the Allies Won (1996) (193)
The Air War, 1939-1945 (1981) (153)
War and Economy in the Third Reich (1995) (145)
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia (2004) (78)
The morbid age : Britain between the wars (2009) (78)
The bombing war : Europe 1939-1945 (2013) (62)
The morbid age : Britain and the crisis of civilization (2010) (58)
German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power (1992) (53)
Social welfare in Germany and Britain : origins and development (1988) (50)
Germany : a new social and economic history (1996) (45)
The Nazi Economic Recovery, 1932-1938 (1984) (38)
Russia's War (1998) (37)
Grand delusion - Stalin and the German invasion of Russia (2000) (37)
Air power and the origins of deterrence theory before 1939 (1992) (36)
Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 (2001) (35)
The Road To War (1989) (35)
From Nuremberg to The Hague: The Nuremberg trials: international law in the making (2003) (30)
The Battle of Britain (1990) (30)
The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars (2009) (27)
The Reichsbank and Public Finance in Germany, 1924-1933: A Study of the Politics of Economics during the Great Depression. (1986) (26)
Hitler's War and the German Economy: A Reinterpretation† (1982) (26)
Bombing, states and peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945 (2011) (25)
The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality (2002) (22)
“Ordinary Men,” Extraordinary Circumstances: Historians, Social Psychology, and the Holocaust (2014) (22)
Mobilization for Total War in Germany 1939–1941 (1988) (21)
The Inter-War Crisis 1919-1939 (1994) (19)
Goering, the "Iron Man" (1984) (18)
The Nazi Economic Recovery, 1932-1938. (1983) (15)
GERMANY, “DOMESTIC CRISIS” AND WAR IN 1939 (1987) (15)
Hitler and Air Strategy (1980) (13)
The "Times" Complete History of the World (1978) (12)
Case Studies in Strategic Bombardment (2012) (10)
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War (2022) (10)
The Nazi Holocaust (1993) (10)
From ‘uralbomber’ to ‘amerikabomber’: The Luftwaffe and strategic bombing (1978) (9)
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Third Reich (1997) (9)
William Morris, Viscount Nuffield (1976) (9)
The Origins of the Second World War (1987) (8)
The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945 (2014) (7)
The German inflation reconsidered : a preliminary balance (1983) (7)
A World at Total War: Allied Bombing and the Destruction of German Cities (2004) (7)
Heavy Industry and the State in Nazi Germany (1985) (6)
All our working lives (1984) (6)
The German pre-war aircraft production plans: November 1936–April 1939 (1975) (6)
Making and Breaking Morale: British Political Warfare and Bomber Command in the Second World War (2015) (6)
Transportation and Rearmament in the Third Reich (1973) (6)
German Air Strength 1933 to 1939: a Note (1984) (6)
Interrogations : Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite (2005) (6)
The German Motorisierung and Rearmament: A Reply (1979) (5)
Strategic Intelligence and the Outbreak of the Second World War (1998) (5)
Soviet casualties and combat losses in the twentieth century (1999) (5)
Who really won the arms race (1998) (5)
Pacifism and the Blitz, 1940–1941 (2013) (4)
Some plants of Kiribati : an illustrated list (1982) (4)
Germany and the Munich crisis: A mutilated victory? (1999) (4)
State and Industry in Germany in the Twentieth Century (1994) (4)
The Times History of the World (2008) (4)
1939: Countdown to War (2009) (4)
Complete History of the World (2005) (4)
The Decline of Britain (1988) (3)
Milgram and the historians (2011) (3)
The Reichswerke ‘Hermann Göring’: A Study in German Economic Imperialism (1994) (3)
Unemployment in the Third Reich (1987) (3)
Struggle for Survival: the History of the Second World War (1991) (3)
German Multi-Nationals and the Nazi State in Occupied Europe (1994) (3)
‘The Weak Link’? The Perception of the German Working Class by RAF Bomber Command, 1940-1945 (2012) (3)
The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II (2015) (2)
A History of War in 100 Battles (2014) (2)
The Nazi economic recovery 1932–1938: Government and recovery (1996) (2)
Eugenics, sex and the state: an afterword. (2008) (2)
Interwar, War, Postwar: Was there a Zero Hour in 1945? (2012) (2)
The German Army and Nazi Policies in Occupied Russia; Hubert Lanz: General der Gebirgstruppe 1896-1982 (1992) (2)
Constructing Space for Dissent in War: The Bombing Restriction Committee, 1941–1945 (2016) (2)
‘Primacy Always Belongs to Politics’: Gustav Krupp and the Third Reich (1994) (2)
Five days in London, May 1940 (2000) (1)
Heavy Industry in the Third Reich: The Reichswerke Crisis (1994) (1)
Collins Atlas of 20th Century History (2005) (1)
Guns or Butter? Living Standards, Finance, and Labour in Germany, 1939–1942 (1994) (1)
Germany : a new social and economic history Vol. 3 Since 1800 (2003) (1)
Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany. (1989) (1)
The Experience of Inflation. (1985) (1)
War in the third dimension (2021) (1)
Business in the Grossraumwirtschaft: Eastern Europe, 1938–1945 (2017) (1)
Aircraft and the Arms Race Between the World Wars (2016) (1)
The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia: From Things of Tyranny to Troubled Treasure by Michael Hughes (review) (2022) (1)
Adam Page, Architectures of Survival: Air War and Urbanism in Britain, 1935–52. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2019. 243pp. 12 figures. £80.00 hbk. (2021) (0)
Bombed Into Defeat? (2015) (0)
Living with inflation (2016) (0)
From European to world war (2022) (0)
Saving Civilization: British Public Opinion and the Coming of War in 1939 (2012) (0)
Arms and war economy: Questions on Swiss modern archival studies (2000) (0)
Book Review: Holocaust versus Wehrmacht: How Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’ Undermined the German War Effort by Yaron Pasher (2017) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
One gigantic camp (1998) (0)
War over Poland (2022) (0)
The ‘Hossbach memorandum’ (2016) (0)
Class and Community in the Third Reich (1979) (0)
Was Hitler Ill? A Final Diagnosis by Hans-Joachim Neumann, Henrik Eberle (review) (2013) (0)
Booty and the beast (1995) (0)
The End of World War II and the Division of Europe: Aspects of a European Culture of Remembrance (2016) (0)
Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography. By Marc Dierikx · Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. xi + 250 pp. Illustrations, references, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. ISBN 1560987359 (1998) (0)
Armaments and domestic politics (2022) (0)
Hitler’s War Plans And The German Economy (1989) (0)
Doing Business with the Nazis (2020) (0)
A CRISIS OF MODERNIZATION (2014) (0)
The Times atlas of the 20th century (1996) (0)
Economic and imperial rivalry (2022) (0)
Doubts about Rommel (1993) (0)
Hein Klemann and Sergei Kudryashov, Occupied economies: an economic history of Nazi‐occupied Europe, 1939–1945 (Oxford: Berg, 2012. Pp. xii + 490. 13 figs. 11 plates. 39 tabs. ISBN 9781845208233 Pbk. £19.99) (2014) (0)
Aircraft industry and air armament in Germany 1918-1945 (2000) (0)
Hitler’s War Plans and the German Economy, 1933–1939 (1994) (0)
Introduction: Some Perspectives (1982) (0)
Book Review: Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East 1942-1943 (2001) (0)
The bombing of British cities in the Second World War (2018) (0)
British banks and the Third Reich: financing the Nazis or a once smart business going bad? (2020) (0)
The Third Reich (2015) (0)
Hitler's war? (2022) (0)
The Third Reich (2015) (0)
Britain’s economic revolution and the demise of the Weimar Republic (2020) (0)
British protectionism and the Third Reich: a fat or lean Germany? (2020) (0)
Why We Bomb You (2015) (0)
An economy geared to war (The lesson Hitler drew from the 1914-18 war) (2001) (0)
The Nazi economic recovery 1932–1938: Full employment and the coming of war (1996) (0)
The legacy of 1917 (2016) (0)
Shorter notice. Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest. R Schweller (2000) (0)
Could more have been done (1997) (0)
The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry (2002) (0)
Was Hitler Ill? A Final Diagnosis. By Hans-Joachim Neumann and Henrik Eberle (Malden, Mass., Polity Press, 2013) 244 pp. $25.00 (2013) (0)
Global war 1914–45 (2015) (0)
H.E. Nossack, The End – Hamburg 1943. Translation & Foreword J. Agee. Photographs E. Andres, 2004 (2008) (0)
The Inter-War Crisis: Revised 2nd Edition (2009) (0)
Britain and the rise of the Third Reich: dealing with the legacy of reparations (2020) (0)
The 'Times' History of the 20th Century (2003) (0)
THE CHALLENGE OF PROGRESS (2014) (0)
Reviews : Niall Ferguson, Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-47016, 1995; xiv + 539 pp.; £40.00 (1998) (0)
‘The Chap with the Closest Tabs’: Trevor-Roper and the Hunt for Hitler (2016) (0)
State, Industry and Labour (1982) (0)
Britain’s trade and payments with the Third Reich: ‘economic appeasement’? (2020) (0)
From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima: The War in the Pacific 1941-1945 (2012) (0)
Rückzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944 by Joachim Ludewig (2013) (0)
Michele Haapamaki. The Coming of the Aerial War: Culture and the Fear of Airborne Attack in Inter-War Britain . London: I. B. Tauris, 2014. Pp. 255. $90.00 (cloth). (2015) (0)
THE ‘GREAT CRASH’: CAPITALISM IN CRISIS (2014) (0)
We burnt the body (2005) (0)
The Nazi Economy - Was It Geared to War? (1998) (0)
Business and Politics in Europe, 1900–1970: German business and the Nazi New Order (2003) (0)
Interview with Richard Overy (2015) (0)
More titles in the New Studies in Economic and Social History series (1996) (0)
Hitler's personal role in the German air effort and in the planning (2016) (0)
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty. By Norman M. Naimark. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 361. Cloth $29.95. ISBN 978-0674238770. (2021) (0)
The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe: The Life of Erhard Milch. By D. Irving. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973. Pp. xx + 451. £5·95. (1975) (0)
The German Economy from War to Depression (1982) (0)
The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932–1938 by R. J. Overy (1996) (0)
Book Review:Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich. Omer Bartov (1994) (0)
Book Reviews : Struggle for Survival: the History of the Second World War. By R. A. C. Parker. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989. xii + 328 pp. 14.95 cloth; 5.95 paperback (1991) (0)
Girl in a hayloft (2002) (0)
Bread, butter and canons - The food market in Germany under Hitler (2001) (0)
Reviews : W. J. Mommsen & L. Kettenacker, eds., The Fascist Challenge and the Policy of Appeasement, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1983. xii + 436pp. £18.50 (1985) (0)
WHAT KIND OF CRISIS (2014) (0)
Richard Bessel, Violence: A Modern Obsession (2017) (0)
Chamberlain guarantees Poland (2014) (0)
Agriculture, the State and self-sufficiency: Agricultural policy in Fascist Italy (1922-1943) (2000) (0)
Hour of joy, hour zero (1995) (0)
Identity, Politics and Technology in the RAF's History (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (2000) (0)
The Luftwaffe and the European Economy 1939–1945 (1979) (0)
Rationalization and the ‘Production Miracle’ in Germany during the Second World War (1994) (0)
Explaining the Second World War (2022) (0)
Modern Europe (1999) (0)
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice, by Mary Fulbrook (2020) (0)
The Nazi economic recovery 1932–1938: The nature of the recovery (1996) (0)
Britain and the world economy (2020) (0)
Strategic Intelligence and theOutbreak of the Second World War (1998) (0)
Book Reviews : German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power. By M. Walker. Cambridge University Press. 1989. 290 pp. 27.50 (1992) (0)
Introduction: The Nazi Economy in Peace and War (1994) (0)
The German Home Front Under the Bombs (2018) (0)
The Nazi economic recovery 1932–1938: Note on references (1996) (0)
British industry and the Third Reich: trading in strategic raw materials with the future enemy? (2020) (0)
The Economy Republic since 1949 (2014) (0)
Hammond Atlas of World History (1999) (0)
The Four-Year Plan (2017) (0)
The international crisis (2022) (0)
Battle of Britain and the Blitz (2016) (0)
Reviews : J.P. Fox, Germany and the Far Eastern Crisis 1931-1938, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1982. xii + 445pp., £20 (1983) (0)
The Second World War - A people's history (2001) (0)

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