Patrick N. Major (born 1964, in Surrey) is Professor of History at the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

. Major is a specialist in the

history of modern Germany The Germani tribes i.e. Germanic tribes are now considered to be related to the Jastorf culture before expanding and interacting with the other peoples. The concept of a region for Germanic tribes is traced to time of Julius Caesar, a Roman gene ...

, the World Wars, the Cold War, film history and popular cultural history. Major spent some time researching in the West German security services. He later discovered that his supervisor in the West German version of MI5 was a former Stasi agent."Spotlight on: Professor Patrick Major"
''Reading History'', 17 October 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2015.

Selected publications

*''The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956''. *''The workers' and peasants' state: communism and society in East Germany under Ulbricht, 1945–71''. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002. (Editor with J. Osmond) *"Our friend Rommel: the Wehrmacht as "worthy enemy" in postwar British popular culture", ''

German History The Germani tribes i.e. Germanic tribes are now considered to be related to the Jastorf culture before expanding and interacting with the other peoples. The concept of a region for Germanic tribes is traced to time of Julius Caesar, a Roman gen ...

'', 26 (4), 2008, pp. 520–35. *''Behind the Berlin Wall: East Germany and the Frontiers of Power''.

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, Oxford, 2009. *''Spooked: Britain, Empire and Intelligence since 1945''. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2009. (Edited with C. Moran) *"Listening behind the Curtain: BBC broadcasting to East Germany and its Cold War echo", '' Cold War History'', 13 (2), 2012, pp. 255–275.

References

Academics of the University of Reading British historians Living people Historians of Germany Academics from Surrey Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford Academics of the University of Warwick 1964 births {{UK-historian-stub