Antony Beevor - Chalke History Festival

Antony Beevor

Sir Antony Beevor FRSL, FRHistS, was 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. His work has appeared in thirty-five foreign languages and sold more than eight million copies. According to the Bookseller, ‘Beevor is the bestselling historian of the BookScan era’. Stalingrad won the first Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 1999. Berlin – The Downfall 1945 was a No. 1 Bestseller in seven countries apart from Britain, and in the top five in another nine countries. The book received the first Longman-History Today Trustees’ Award. D-Day – The Battle for Normandy, The Second World War, Ardennes 1944 – Hitler’s Last Gamble, Arnhem – The Battle for the Bridges and his latest book, Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921, were all international bestsellers. He has received numerous honours, awards and honorary degrees and in 2017 was knighted.

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129. Berlin ’45

Antony Beevor, James Holland