Paul Maddrell

Dr. Paul Maddrell is a British historian and lecturer on History at Loughborough University in the Politics, History and International Relations department. He is an internationally known specialist on spying in post-war Germany as well as on the participation of German nuclear physicists in the Soviet atomic bomb project.

Studies and research

He has studied at The University of Cambridge and obtained an MA, LL. M., M. Phil, and Ph. D Degrees. Prior to teaching at Aberystwyth he lectured at the University of Salford.

Paul Maddrell's research interests center around security, intelligence, and Post-War Germany. He has written several academic articles and chapters of books on these topics. In 2006 he had a book published by Oxford University Press entitled Spying on Science: Western Intelligence in Divided Germany, 1945-1961 about technical espionage between the superpowers in the Cold War, particularly concentrating on the West's intelligence collection in the GDR.

He often is invited to media interviews and conferences on intelligence, especially about the former East German State Security. So he was recently interviewed in a BBC Radio 4 bulletin of 5 November 2012 on Soviet nuclear weapons in the GDR during the Second Berlin Crisis.[1] He also took part as lecturer at the International Conference “Need to Know II: ‘Lessons learned’” organized by the Southern Denmark University in Odense, 16–17 October 2012[2]

Publications

Books

Chapters in Books

Academic Articles

References

  1. Dr. Paul Maddrell - The Second Berlin Crisis 9 November 2012
  2. International Conference in Odense, 16–17 October 2012

External links

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