Richard Overy

Richard Overy FRHistS FBA
Overy lecturing at King's College London in 2015
Born	Richard James Overy (1947-12-23) 23 December 1947 (age 76)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Occupation	Historian
Known for	Studies on military history, especially the Second World War
Notable credit(s)	Why the Allies Won, The Air War: 1939–1945

Richard James Overy FRHistS FBA (born 23 December 1947) 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.^[1]