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  1. Jun 26, 2024 · In his latest book, Why War?, historian Richard Overy grapples with a question that stumped Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – why do humans persist in waging war?

  2. Jun 13, 2024 · Richard Overy is unquestionably one of our finest living historians, especially of 20th-century warfare. For some reason, he is perhaps not as lauded as he should be despite...

  3. 19 hours ago · Richard Overy is an accomplished British historian of World War II. His “Why War?” is a brisk and wide-ranging survey of the academic literature since Einstein wrote to Freud. Mr. Overy ...

  4. Jun 22, 2024 · In Why War?, Richard Overy draws upon his lifetime as a war historian to summarise what research across multiple disciplines can tell us about the causes and motives for war.

  5. Jun 27, 2024 · In his latest book, Why War?, historian Richard Overy grapples with a question that stumped Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – why do humans persist in waging war?

  6. Jun 19, 2024 · Overy’s investigation encompasses 30,000 years of human history and studies numerous causes – what he calls a “messy cocktail” – of our belligerence, among them evolution, belief systems, national security, access to resources and the urge to power.

  7. Jun 27, 2024 · Studying every facet of war from biology to belief, psychology to security, Overy allows readers to understand the many contradictory or self-reinforcing ways in which warfare can suddenly appear a legitimate option.