Roger Moorhouse (born 1968) is a British historian and author. Born in Stockport, Cheshire, he was raised in Hertfordshire and attended Berkhamsted School. Despite leaving school at 16, he was inspired to return to education by the East European Revolutions of 1989, and enrolled in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University of London in 1990 to study history and politics. He graduated with an MA in 1994 and has since studied at the universities of Düsseldorf and Strathclyde.
Whilst a student, Moorhouse began working as a researcher for Professor Norman Davies. He collaborated with Professor Davies on many of the latter’s recent publications, including Europe: A History, The Isles, and Rising ’44. This working relationship culminated in 2002 with the publication, in three languages, of a co-authored study of the history of the city of Wrocław (the former German Breslau) entitled Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City.
2006 saw the publication of Killing Hitler, Moorhouse’s first solo book. An account of the numerous attempts on Hitler’s life, the book was a critical and commercial success and is published in numerous other languages, including German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian and Japanese. Moorhouse is currently working on a social history of Berlin during World War Two, which is due for publication in the summer of 2010.
A fluent German speaker, Moorhouse is a specialist in modern German History, particularly Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. In this capacity, he is a regular contributor to the BBC History (magazine), a book reviewer for the Independent on Sunday and is an occasional commentator on television and radio. A member of the British-German Association, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Moorhouse is married with two children and lives in Buckinghamshire.
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Books authored
Roger Moorhouse & Norman Davies, Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City, (Cape, 2002). ISBN 0-224-06243-3
Roger Moorhouse & Norman Davies, Die Blume Europas: Die Geschichte einer mitteleuropäischen Stadt, (Droemer, 2002)
Roger Moorhouse & Norman Davies, Mikrokosmos: Portret miasta środkowoeuropejskiego, (Znak, 2002)
Roger Moorhouse & Norman Davies, Microcosmo: L'Europa centrale nella storia di une città, (Mondadori, 2005)
Roger Moorhouse & Norman Davies, Mikrokosmos: Portrét jednoho středoevropského města, (BB Art, 2006)
- Roger Moorhouse, Killing Hitler, (Cape, 2006) ISBN 0-224-07121-1
Roger Moorhouse, Killing Hitler, (Bantam, 2006)- Roger Moorhouse, Polowanie na Hitlera, (Znak, 2006)
- Roger Moorhouse, Uccidere Hitler, (Corbaccio, 2006)
Roger Moorhouse, Hitler: de Aanslagen, (Niew Amsterdam, 2007)- Roger Moorhouse, Atentáty na Hitlera, (BB Art, 2007)
- Roger Moorhouse, Killing Hitler: Die Attentäter, Die Pläne und warum sie scheiterten, (Marix, 2007)
Roger Moorhouse, Matar a Hitler, (Debate, 2008)
Roger Moorhouse, Ubiti Hitlera, (Srednja Europa, 2008)
Roger Moorhouse, ヒトラー暗殺, (Hakusuisha, 2008)
Roger Moorhouse, Uppdrag: Döda Hitler, (Fischer & Co, 2009)
Roger Moorhouse, 刺杀希特勒, (Shanghai, 2009)
Roger Moorhouse, Quero Matar Hitler, (Ediouro, 2009)
Contributions
- Jak powstało Powstanie '44, Norman Davies, (Znak, Kraków, 2005), Chapter
- The Men Who Tried to Kill Hitler, Roger Manvell & Heinrich Fraenkel, (Frontline Books, 2008), Introduction
- He Was My Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Secretary, Christa Schroeder, (Frontline Books, 2009), Introduction
- With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler's Valet, Heinz Linge, (Frontline Books, 2009), Introduction
- The Celebrated Pedestrian and Other Historical Curiosities (BBC History, 2009), Contributions
- I was Hitler's Chauffeur: The Memoirs of Erich Kempka, Erich Kempka, (forthcoming from Frontline Books, 2010), Introduction
Academic Publications
- The Genesis of the Polish Corridor in Conan Fischer & Alan Sharp (eds.), After the Versailles Treaty, (Routledge, London, 2008)
- Перемещение восточной границы <Третьего рейха> и переселение населения (ангпийская точка эрения) in ЕВРОПА (Warsaw, 2004)
- Przesunięcie wschodniej granicy III Rzeszy i ‘transfer ludności’ ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem kwestii Śląska z angielskiego punktu widzenia in Postanowienia i konsekwencje konferenji w Jałcie i Poczdamie, (Gliwice-Opole, 2003)
- German Policy towards the Sudeten Question 1933-36. in Slovo: A journal of contemporary Russian and East European Affairs, (London, 1995)
TV/DVD/Radio appearances
- Today Programme, (BBC Radio 4, 21 April 2006) (studio interview)
- Newstalk Ireland, (15 June, 2006) (interview)
- Revealed: The Family That Defied Hitler, (Channel 5, 2007) (interview)
- BBC News 24, 7 August 2007, (studio interview)
- Operation Valkyrie: The Stauffenberg Plot to Kill Hitler, (The History Channel, 2008) (interview)
- 42 Ways to Kill Hitler (US title) / Killing Hitler (UK title), (National Geographic Channel, 2009) (interview)
- The Counterfeiter's Tale, (BBC Radio 4, 13 March 2009) (interview)
- Newstalk Ireland, (17 August, 2009) (interview)
See also
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