Richard Overy has written many articles and a number of books on various aspects of the Second World War. Amongst these are: The Nazi Economic Recovery ^(Macmillan, 1982), The Origins of the Second World War (Longmans, 1987), and The Road to War (With A. Wheatcroft, BBC/Macmillan 1989, Random House 1990, Papermac 1991). He lives in SW London.

'What Overy's careful and valuable studies actually do is to confirm the conclusions of all other unprejudiced scholars who have used business archives with similar determination.'Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction - the Nazi economy in peace and war. Part 1 German economic recovery: unemployment in the Third Reich; cars, roads and economic recovery in Germany 1932-1938. Part 2 Industry in the Third Reich: heavy industry in the Third Reich - the Reichswerke crisis; "primacy always belongs to politics" - Gustav Krupp and the Third Reich; the Reichswerke "Hermann Goering" - a study in German economic imperialism. Part 3 Rearmament and the coming of war: Hitler's war plans and the German economy, 1933-1939; Germany, "domestic crisis" and war in 1939; Hitler's war and the German economy - a reinterpretation. Part 4 The German war economy, 1939-1945: guns or butter? - living standards, finance and labour in Germany 1939-1942; German multi-nationals and the Nazi state in Occupied Europe; rationalization and the "production miracle" in Germany during World War II.

Richard Overy has written many articles and a number of books on various aspects of the Second World War. Amongst these are: The Nazi Economic Recovery ^(Macmillan, 1982), The Origins of the Second World War (Longmans, 1987), and The Road to War (With A. Wheatcroft, BBC/Macmillan 1989, Random House 1990, Papermac 1991). He lives in SW London.

'What Overy's careful and valuable studies actually do is to confirm the conclusions of all other unprejudiced scholars who have used business archives with similar determination.'Times Literary Supplement

• Introduction - the Nazi economy in peace and war. Part 1 German economic recovery: unemployment in the Third Reich; cars, roads and economic recovery in Germany 1932-1938. Part 2 Industry in the Third Reich: heavy industry in the Third Reich - the Reichswerke crisis; "primacy always belongs to politics" - Gustav Krupp and the Third Reich; the Reichswerke "Hermann Goering" - a study in German economic imperialism. Part 3 Rearmament and the coming of war: Hitler's war plans and the German economy, 1933-1939; Germany, "domestic crisis" and war in 1939; Hitler's war and the German economy - a reinterpretation. Part 4 The German war economy, 1939-1945: guns or butter? - living standards, finance and labour in Germany 1939-1942; German multi-nationals and the Nazi state in Occupied Europe; rationalization and the "production miracle" in Germany during World War II.