Patrick N. Major (born 1964, in Surrey) is Professor of History at the

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. Major is a specialist in the history of modern Germany, the World Wars, the

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, film history and popular cultural history. Major spent some time researching in the West German security services. He later discovered that his supervisor in the West German version of MI5 was a former Stasi agent."Spotlight on: Professor Patrick Major"
''Reading History'', 17 October 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2015.

Selected publications

*''The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956''. *''The workers' and peasants' state: communism and society in East Germany under Ulbricht, 1945–71''.

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, Manchester, 2002. (Editor with J. Osmond) *"Our friend Rommel: the Wehrmacht as "worthy enemy" in postwar British popular culture", '' German History'', 26 (4), 2008, pp. 520–35. *''Behind the Berlin Wall: East Germany and the Frontiers of Power''.

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, Oxford, 2009. *''Spooked: Britain, Empire and Intelligence since 1945''. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2009. (Edited with C. Moran) *"Listening behind the Curtain: BBC broadcasting to East Germany and its Cold War echo", '' Cold War History'', 13 (2), 2012, pp. 255–275.

References

Academics of the University of Reading British historians Living people Historians of Germany Academics from Surrey Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford Academics of the University of Warwick 1964 births {{UK-historian-stub