Tim Bouverie


Timothy Pleydell-Bouverie is a British historian and former political journalist at Channel 4 News.

Early life and education

Bouverie was educated at Bryanston School before going to Christ Church, Oxford, to read history.

Career

Between 2013 and 2017, Bouverie was a political journalist at Channel 4 News, working first for the television programme Dispatches and later as a producer for Michael Crick.
His first book, Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War, was published by Bodley Head in April 2019. A Sunday Times bestseller, it was described by Antony Beevor as an "astonishingly accomplished debut". A second book, Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler, was published in 2025 and was called "revelatory" by Adam Sisman, writing in The Guardian.

Books

  • Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
  • ''Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler''