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Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his television lectures.
A.J.P. Taylor (born March 25, 1906, Birkdale, Lancashire, Eng.—died Sept. 7, 1990, London) was a British historian and journalist noted for his lectures on history and for his prose style. Taylor attended Oriel College, Oxford, graduating with first-class honours in 1927.
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A.J.P.Taylor attacks the view that Germany deliberately sought war in 1914 and argues that military railway timetables were the crucial factor.
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The Origins of the Second World War is a non-fiction book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor, examining the causes of World War II. It was first published in 1961 by Hamish Hamilton.
- A. J. P. Taylor
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The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918 is a scholarly history book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor and was part of "The Oxford History of Modern Europe", published by the Clarendon Press in Oxford in October 1954.
- A. J. P. Taylor
- 1954
Sep 8, 1990 · His goal was to make Germany a great world power but, with no clear plan how to do it, he changed with circumstances, stumbling into a war that was in large part brought on by that...
1 day ago · In a departure from her more familiar role as an economic historian, she has written an excellent study of his life and work that restores him to his rightful place in the history of History. This is the third life of Taylor. The first was his autobiography, published in 1984.
