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Roger Moorhouse (born 1968) is a British historian and author. Born in Stockport, Cheshire, he was raised in Hertfordshire and attended Berkhamsted School. Despite leaving school at 16, he was inspired to return to education by the East European Revolutions of 1989, and enrolled in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University of London 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 A History, A History, 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 Wroc?aw (the former German Breslau) entitled 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 has been published in numerous other languages, including German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian and Japanese.

Moorhouse's most recent book - entitled Berlin at War - is a social history of Berlin during World War Two, which was published in the summer of 2010. Based on first-hand material such as unpublished diaries, memoirs and interviews, the book gives a unique "Berlin-eye view" of the war. It has been well-received, with positive reviews in most major publications. Writing in the Financial Times, Andrew Roberts said of it that: "Few books on the war genuinely increase the sum of our collective knowledge of this exhaustively covered period, but this one does."

A fluent German speaker, Moorhouse is a specialist in modern German History, particularly Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. In this capacity, he is a regular contributor to the BBC History , a book reviewer for a number of publications - including the Independent on Sunday and History Today - and an occasional commentator on television and radio. A member of the British-German Association, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Moorhouse is married with two children and lives in Buckinghamshire.

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