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Antony Beevor: The number one bestselling historian in Britain. Beevor’s books have appeared in thirty-three languages and have sold more than eight million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates.
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.
“Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad is a superb retelling of the saga. Beevor combines a soldier’s understanding of war’s realities with the narrative technique of a novelist.
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...
The Downfall 1945. The Battle for Spain: . The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Paris After the Liberation: . 1944 – 1949.
Antony Beevor, making full use of often devastating new material from former Soviet files as well as from German, American, British, French and Swedish archives, has reconstructed the different experiences of those millions caught up in the mad nightmare of the Third Reich’s final collapse.
The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. “All in all, perhaps the best general work on the war to be published in the last decades.”. Rafael Núñez Florencio, El Mundo. “The Battle for Spain looks likely to become the standard account of the conflict for at least the next generation.”. London Review of Books.
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944. “Antony Beevor, using many overlooked and new sources from Dutch, British, American, Polish and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of this epic clash.
Antony Beevor’s D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the closest you will ever get to war – the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear. The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known.
Using the most up-to-date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor, assembles the complete picture in a narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield and the woman doctor in an improvised hospital.
