It is one of many tangential diversions. Like his contemporary David Starkey, Antony Beevor has opinions and is not afraid to use them. But unlike Starkey, Beevor is no vituperative controversialist.

And it is part of Antony Beevor's genius that he pulls you into his latest book, D-Day: The Battle For Normandy, by focusing on one otherwise ordinary man's moment of destiny. The 62 year-old has ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with historian Antony Beevor about the role tanks play in warfare and how Ukraine might benefit from them. With word this week that German and American tanks are ...

British Historian Antony Beevor "Putin Wants to Be Feared – Like Stalin and Hitler" British historian Antony Beevor sees Russia as a "prisoner of its past." In an interview, the historian ...

2013-07-21T17:46:42-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/df4/20130721174724002_hd.jpgPeter Slen interviewed Antony Beevor in London about his research and writings on ...

Improbably, their paths never crossed. But Sir Antony Beevor certainly feels at home in the House That Stephen Ambrose Built. The recently knighted British historian, whose writings on World War ...

In fact, I am almost embarrassed at how much good fortune I have had, especially with timing. Antony Beevor is a historian. His latest book “Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921” is out now with ...

Antony Beevor’s new book is best seen as a history of that war (or, more accurately, wars) prefaced by a lengthy prologue chronicling the events that triggered it. To anyone reasonably familiar ...

Antony Beevor’s new book, a history of the Russian Civil War, is “easily the most horrifying war story I’ve ever read”, said Gerard DeGroot in The Times. The four-year conflict, ...

How that came to pass is the subject of Antony Beevor’s curiously mistitled Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921. Mistitled, because “Russia” here makes no sense either politically or ...