Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor
Antony James Beevor, FRSLis an English military historian. He has published several popular histories on the Second World War and the 20th century in general...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth14 December 1946
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The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.
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The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.
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To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make
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The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.
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I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
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I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.
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I can't envisage stopping writing.
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The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.
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Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall,
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The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
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The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.
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When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
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I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.
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The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.