Roger Moorhouse

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Roger Moorhouse (born 14 October 1968) is a British historian and author. Though born in Stockport, Cheshire, he was raised in Hertfordshire and was educated at Berkhamsted School. Inspired by the East European revolutions of 1989, he enrolled in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of London University in 1990 to study history and politics. He graduated with an MA in 1994 and has since studied at the universities of Düsseldorf and Strathclyde.

Whilst a student, Moorhouse began working as a researcher for Professor Norman Davies. He collaborated with Professor Davies on many of the latter’s recent publications, including Europe: A History, The Isles, and Rising ’44. This working relationship culminated in 2002 with the publication, in three languages, of a co-authored study of the history of the city of Wrocław (the former German Breslau) entitled Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City.

2006 saw the publication of Killing Hitler, Moorhouse’s first solo book. An account of the numerous attempts on Hitler’s life, the book was a critical and commercial success and is published in a further nine languages, including German, Spanish, Russian, Italian and Japanese.

A fluent German speaker, Moorhouse is a specialist in modern German and Central European History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is a regular contributor to the BBC History (magazine). He is married with two children and lives in Buckinghamshire.

[edit] Books authored

Moorhouse, R. & Davies, N. (2002). Microcosm: Portait of a Central European City. Cape. ISBN 0-224-06243-3
Moorhouse, R. (2006). Killing Hitler. Cape. ISBN 0-224-07121-1