Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor is a Historien English, born the December 14th 1946, having studied with the Winchester College and the military royal Académie of Sandhurst. It followed the courses of one of the most famous historians of the Second world war, John Keegan. Beevor is the author of many works discussed for some, innovators for others, in particular on the battles of the Second world war (Stalingrad, Berlin and Crete; appeared in 1991, this last was not translated yet into French at the end of 2006), but also an important history of the Guerre of Spain which refers, including in Spain, like over the century in general.

As a former officer of the 11th hussards within the British armed , it had access, as well for Stalingrad as for Berlin, with the Soviet files, which were inaccessible until 1991. Thus it renewed in-depth the military and political history of the Second world war.

Biographical outline

It is Professor invited pulpits of Histoire, sciences of Antiquity and Archéologie at the Birkbeck university of London. It is the downward one of a long line of women writers, wire of Carinthia " Kinta" Beevor (1911 - August 1995), itself girl of Lina Wakefield, and downward of Lucie Duff-Gordon (author of a notebook of voyage on the Egypt). Kinta Beevor is the author of has Tuscan Childhood (a Tuscan childhood). Antony Beevor is married in Artemis Cooper, grand-daughter of Lady Diana Cooper.

Its most known work, the Bestseller S Stalingrad and Berlin - the fall 1945 , make the account of the battles of the Second world war opposing the USSR and Germany. They were celebrated for their style living and precise, and for the use of the Soviet files made lately public. Its works speak about the atrocities made by the two sides, but are particularly remarkable for their quasi exhaustive study of the crimes less known clerks by the Red Army at the time of its entry in German territory, including plunderings and the rape of several million women. Another of its books (less known at the French-speaking people because not translated yet) relates to Crete during the war: Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (Crete: the battle and the resistance), and for which it accepted the Runciman price.

Criticisms

Berlin - the fall 1945 had to face strong criticisms in Russia to see this article of Telegraph and in other countries. The Russian ambassador in the United Kingdom denounced the work like a " mensonge" and a " calumny against the men who released the world of the nazisme". O.A. Rzheshevsky, professor and president of the Russian association of the historians of the Second world war, showed Beevor of practically ressuciter the racist and discredited points of view historians néonazis, who described in their time the Soviet troops like " hordes of submen asiatiques" :

the central themes of this work - not by the place that they occupy there, but by their range - are really the brutal atrocities made by the Soviet soldiers and officers against the German populations, the resurrection of the image of the " hordes asiatiques" , which was hammered in the head of the Germans by propaganda Nazi, then later by an small group of historians Néonazi S, whose Germany was diverted for a long time. The principal conclusion of the book, from which the author carries out the totality of his discussions about the brutal atrocities made by the Soviet soldiers, and particularly the rapes of German women, are contained very whole in this passage: " The image of soldiers carrying torches ignited above the faces of women terrant themselves in a bunker, selecting their victims, is characteristic of the totality of the Soviet armies having operated at the time of the battle of Berlin (p.326) " (although the book uses the words " seem to be commune" and not " de" is characteristic;).

Work published

Four of its news were published in English language:

Violent one Brink , (first edition at John Murray, London, 1975);
The Faustian Pact , (Jonathan Wraps, London, 1983);
For Reasons off State , (Jonathan Wraps, London, 1980);
The enchantment off Christina von Retzen (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1989).

Its work published bearing on historical events includes, in their English original version:

The Spanish Civil War (first edition at Orbis, London, 1982);
Inside the British Army (Chatto Windus, London, 1990);
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (John Murray, London, 1991);
Paris After the Release, 1944-1949 , coécrit with its wife, Artemis Cooper (1994);
Stalingrad (Viking, London, 1998);
Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Penguin, London, 2002); Published its title The Fall off Berlin 1945 in the United States;
The Mystery off Olga Chekhova , (2004);
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 , Spanish edition in 2005, English edition in 2006;

The works which it published include/understand:

has Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman.

It also forms part of the contributors of certain collective works, of which:

The British Army, Manpower and Society into the Twenty-First Century , editions Hew Strachan;
What Yews? off American History: Eminent Historians Imagines What Might Have Been , by Robert Cowley (Editor), Antony Beevor and Caleb Carr. (2003)

Works translated into French

Notebooks of War from Moscow to Berlin 1941-1945 (extracts of the notebooks of Vassili Grossman), 390pages, ED. Calman-Levy June 2007
the war of Spain, ED. Calmann-levy, 2006,680 pages.
Stalingrad, ED. De Fallois, 1999.
the fall of Berlin, ED. from Fallois, 2002 (transl. Jean Bourdier).

Rewards

Crete: The Battle and the Resistance

Runciman Prize

Stalingrad

Price Samuel Johnson

Wolfson History Prize

Hawthornden Price in the category literature

Berlin: The Downfall 1945

Longman-History Today Trustees' Award

The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 (Spanish Edition)

Vanguardia , price in the category works historical

External bonds

Official website.
Biography off Antony Beevor
Liddell Hart Centers for Military Archives: Beevor, Antony (B 1946)
Antony Beevor Stalingrad Berlin - The Downfall 1945

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