Frederick Taylor (historian)

Frederick Taylor ( born 1947 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England ) is a British historian.

Life

Frederick Taylor studied Modern History and German at Oxford University and did research after completing his studies at Sussex University, where he specialized in the study of the rise of far-right parties from the beginning of the 20th century in Germany. Through a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation, he was in the 70s repeatedly visit both the Federal Republic and the GDR.

Taylor translated 1982, the diaries of Joseph Goebbels from the years 1939 to 1941 into English. His 2004 book published Dresden. Tuesday, 13 February, 1945, published in the same year in German, deals with the air raids on Dresden, particularly the proportion of the Royal Air Force it. The book was highly controversial in Germany and the UK.

2006 Taylor published the non-fiction book The Berlin Wall, which was published in German in 2009. In his book, Exorcising Hitler (2011) Taylor deals with the occupation and denazification of Germany from 1944 until 1946.

Taylor is a member of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain. He lives with his wife, writer Alice Kavounas, in Cornwall.

Works (selection)

• Dresden. Tuesday, 13 February 1945 (2004, dt 2004) ISBN 0-747570841.
• Strategic importance of the Allied bombing campaign. The handling of the disaster. In: Lothar Fritze, Thomas Widera (ed.): Allied bombing raids. V & R unipress, Göttingen 2005.
• The Berlin Wall (2006; German The Wall, 2009) ISBN 1-408802562.
• Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany (2011) ISBN 1-596915366.
• The Downfall of Money. Germany's hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class - A Cautionary History. Bloomsbury Publishing, London, England, 2013. German: The Fall of the money in the Weimar Republic and the birth of a German trauma. Siedler, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8275-0011-3.