Heather Jones
Professor of Modern & Contemporary European History, University College London
The historians
Twenty leading scholars of the First and Second World Wars, from university professors to award-winning authors, each interviewed about how their research overturns the received story.
First World War historians
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Gary Sheffield
Professor Emeritus of War Studies, University of Wolverhampton
Jonathan Boff
Professor of Military History, University of Birmingham
Diana Preston
Author and Historian
Taylor Downing
Historian, writer and broadcaster
George Morton-Jack
Historian
Peter Hart
Former Oral Historian, Imperial War Museum
Robert Gerwarth
Professor of Modern History, University College Dublin
William Philpott
Professor of the History of Warfare, King’s College London
Mark Connelly
Professor Emeritus of Modern British History, University of Kent
Second World War historians
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David Edgerton
Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology, King’s College London
Richard Overy
Honorary Research Professor of History, University of Exeter
Ian W. Toll
Author and Historian
Lizzie Collingham
Social and Cultural Historian
Christian Gerlach
Professor of Modern History, University of Bern
Hans van de Ven
Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Cambridge
Halik Kochanski
Writer and Historian
Geoffrey Roberts
Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University College Cork
John Bodnar
Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History, Indiana University
Keith Lowe
Writer and Historian