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Biography. Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst, where he studied military history under John Keegan. A regular officer with the 11th Hussars, he left the Army after five years to write. He has published four novels, and thirteen books of non-fiction.
Sep 7, 2012 · By Richard Toye. Sept. 7, 2012. Toward the end of this powerful narrative of World War II, Antony Beevor quotes a report, by the Australian war correspondent Godfrey Blunden, of an encounter...
The Economist “This memorable vignette is one of hundreds in Antony Beevor’s utterly absorbing history of the Second World War. Beevor is justly celebrated for recounting the human realities of war... Beevor is committed to telling the truth about war, with all its painful contradictions...
Antony Beevor is a historian and author. His books include Stalingrad, Berlin:The Downfall 1945, and The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-39. November 2022. ‘This is rock-star...
Sir Antony James Beevor, is a British military historian. He has published several popular historical works, mainly on the Second World War, the Spanish Civil War, and most recently the Russian Revolution and Civil War.
Sep 5, 2009 · In D-Day: The Battle for Normandy, best-selling historian Antony Beevor ( Stalingrad, The Fall of Berlin 1945) has delved into World War II’s most worked-over turf. As he burrowed into new sources, his keen eye for telling details also turned up some larger issues that have recently begun to surface—like the price the French paid for liberation.
Dec 9, 2015 · Beevor captures the microevents of battle brilliantly, the ambushes and fire fights, the horrors of tanks swerving over foxholes to bury their inhabitants alive, tales of psychological collapse...
