biography
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Taylor, A(lan) J(ohn) P(ercivale)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1906–90)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Lancashire, NW England, UK. He studied at Oxford, lectured at Manchester University, became a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford (1938–76), and lectured in international history (1953–63). His major work was The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848–1918 (1954). He aroused passionate hostility with his revisionist The Origins of the Second World War (1961), arguing for accident and miscalculation rather than Hitler's grand design as its cause. Other works include English History, 1914–1945 (1965), The Trouble Makers (1957), and a biography of his close friend Lord Beaverbrook (1972). |
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