Our 2022 Al and Marge Brown Lecture features Richard Overy. This lecture is being offered as a webinar.

Richard Overy is Honorary Research Professor at the University of Exeter, UK, where he taught for ten years after a long spell at King’s College, London. He has written extensively on the world wars and the European dictatorships, and has a particular interest in air power history. Among more than 30 books that he has authored or edited, the best known are The Air War 1939-1945, Why the Allies Won, The Dictators (winner of the Wolfson Prize for History in 2004), The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 (winner of a Cundill Award for Historical Literature) and most recently Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War 1931-1945. He won the Samuel Elliot Morison Award for military history in 2000 and the James Doolittle Award in 2010 from MIT. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Member of the European Academy for Sciences and Arts.

Professor Overy’s lecture will be followed by an interview with Kristan McMahon, Jackson Center president, and Gregory Peterson, Jackson Center co-founder.

Please register for the webinar below.