Frank McDonough is a British historian of the Third Reich and international history.
14 Facts About Frank McDonough
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Francis Xavier McDonough was born on 17 April 1957 in Liverpool.
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Frank McDonough studied modern History at Balliol College, Oxford, as a Senior Status Scholar.
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Frank McDonough later earned a PhD in history from Lancaster University, under the supervision of Ruth Henig.
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Frank McDonough was Professor of International History in the History Department of the School of Humanities and Social Science at Liverpool John Moores University until his retirement in 2021.
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Frank McDonough has written textbooks including Fascism, Conflict and Communism, for the Oxford and Cambridge Examinations Board.
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Frank McDonough appeared on CrossTalk on Russia Today in 2010, debating whether the Second World War could have been prevented.
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Frank McDonough featured in the BBC 1 documentary A Tale of Two Rival Cities, which was part of the BBC's "History of the World" project, for which he acted as Historical Consultant; the documentary won a Royal Television Society Award.
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Frank McDonough was interviewed in two special programmes on French National Television to mark the 70th anniversary of General de Gaulle's 18 June 1940 speech when he said the "flame of French Resistance cannot be extinguished".
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Frank McDonough appeared as an historical commentator on France 2 and in a special documentary featuring historians on de Gaulle, broadcast on France 3 on 18 June 2010.
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Frank McDonough appeared in the BBC 1 programme Inside Out commenting on a story presented by the actor Paul McGann that looked at whether or not Adolf Hitler visited Liverpool between November 1911 and May 1912.
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Frank McDonough argued that evidence from Austrian police records, eyewitness accounts from Vienna, and shipping records all strongly indicated that the young Hitler had lived in Vienna at this time, not Liverpool, thus confirming what Hitler claimed in his autobiography, Mein Kampf.
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In November 2013, Frank McDonough was featured in a BBC 1 documentary called The Story of the Swastika and a Channel 5 documentary called 7 Days That Made the Fuhrer.
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In 2014, Frank McDonough appeared in a 10-part documentary series called The Rise of the Nazi Party on Quest TV, part of the Discovery Channel.