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Raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he took his doctorate in Oxford and began work shortly afterwards for the first great historian of WW2, Sir Basil Liddell Hart. He now teaches at Yale, and is the author or editor of nineteen books, includingThe Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (translated into over twenty languages), andEngineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War.
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