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Antony Beevor

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Historian, educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars, who has published several popular histories on the Second World War. He is the second son of Carinthia "Kinta" Beevor (1911- August 1995, daughter of Lina Wakefield, and a descendant of Lucie Duff-Gordon (author of a travelogue on Egypt) whose memories A Tuscan Childhood were published recently. Anthony Beevor is married to Hon. Artemis Cooper, granddaughter of Lady Diana Cooper, and has issue.

Among his books are Stalingrad (co-authored with his wife), first published in 1998; and Berlin - The Downfall 1945, first published in 2002. He is Visiting Professor at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.


Official website

Biography of Antony Beevor

BBC Book Club on Stalingrad

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