Antony Beevor

Historian

Antony Beevor is a British historian, whose best-selling books include Crete – The Battle and the Resistance, which won a Runciman Prize, Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949 (written with his wife Artemis Cooper), Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, Berlin – The Downfall, and The Mystery of Olga Chekhova.

He also edited A Writer at War – Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945, a compilation of the great novelist’s wartime notebooks. The Battle for Spain, was first published in Spanish in 2005, as La Guerra Civil Española and became the No. 1 Bestseller in Spain. D-Day, the Battle for Normandy, was published in June of this year. His books have appeared in thirty languages and sold nearly four million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received an honorary doctorate from Kent University, and is a visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London.