Frederick Taylor (born 28 December 1947 at
Aylesbury
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, Buckinghamshire) is a British novelist and historian specialising in modern German history.
He was educated at
Aylesbury Grammar School
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and read History and Modern Languages at
Oxford University
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. He did postgraduate work at
Sussex University
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, type = Public research university
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, budget = £319.6 million (2019–20)
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on the rise of the extreme right in Germany in the early twentieth century. Before embarking on the series of historical monographs for which he is best known, he translated ''
The Goebbels Diaries 1939–1941'' into English and wrote novels set in Germany.
Bibliography
Novels
*''Auf Wiedersehen, Pet''. London: Sphere, 1983. Based on the
television series
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.
*''Walking Shadows''. New York: St Martins, 1984.
*''The Kinder Garden''. London: Century, 1990.
*''The Peacebrokers''. London: Random House, 1992.
Non-fiction
* ''Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February 1945''. London: Bloomsbury, 2004.
* ''The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 – 9 November 1989''. London: Bloomsbury, 2006.
* ''
Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany''. London: Bloomsbury, 2011.
* ''The Downfall of Money: Germany's Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class''. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
* ''Coventry 10 November 1940''. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.
* ''1939: A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War''. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Translations
* ''The Goebbels Diaries 1939–1941''. Translated and edited by Frederick Taylor. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982.
External links
Frederick Taylor's website.*
ttp://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,368000,00.html Spiegel Online: "The Countdown to Annihilation and the Legacy of the A-Bomb," 3 August 2005.
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British historians
Living people
Alumni of the University of Sussex
People educated at Aylesbury Grammar School
1947 births