D-Day: The Battle For Normandy Jul 1, 2009
ANTONY BEEVOR, who more than any writer has made the story of battle "popular", returns in masterful form with D-Day, his sprawling account of the greatest seaborne invasion in history. Many people feel they know the story: Steven Spielberg's tediously sentimental film Saving Private Ryan was redeemed by his reconstruction of the landing. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Royal D-Day row reveals divide over World War II roles Jun 5, 2009
Historian Antony Beevor, author of D-Day: The Battle for Normandy, said the conflicting views began while the war was still raging. There have been misunderstandings, he said. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Books: Antony Beevor on D-Day Jun 4, 2009
This new historical distance gives Antony Beevor, who made his name with his 1998 bestseller, Stalingrad , the freedom to explore without inhibition the most controversial questions posed by the campaign that opened with the storming of the French beaches on June 6th 1944. It is a freedom he exploits to the full in his new book, D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. (The Economist)
Historians in BBC Timewatch plea Oct 2, 2007
The historians, including Antony Beevor, Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Andrew Roberts, former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore and ex-Evening Standard editor Sir Max Hastings - alongside personalities such as television presenter Michael Palin - have signed the letter of protest, based on reports that the BBC2 series faces either the chop or a drastic budget reduction as part of BBC cost-cutting. The letter notes doubts about the future of the 25-year-old programme "with concern". (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
The historians' letter to the BBC Trust Oct 2, 2007
John Adamson, fellow of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge Jenny Barraclough, chair of the Grierson Trust Mary Beard, professor of classics, University of Cambridge Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and Berlin Tim Blanning, professor of modern European history, University of Cambridge Piers Brendon, author of The Dark Valley and The Decline and Fall of the British Empire Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich and Sacred Causes David Crouch, professor of medieval history, University of... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Patriots ignore greatest brutality Aug 13, 2007
"Much of the fighting consisted not of major attacks, but of relentless, lethal little conflicts. The battle was fought by assault squads armed with knives, sharpened spades for silent killing, sub-machine guns and grenades," Antony Beevor writes in Stalingrad. "The assault squads sent into the sewers were strengthened with flame-throwers and sappers with explosive charges The close-quarter combat in ruined buildings, bunkers, cellars and sewers was soon dubbed 'Rattenkreig' by German... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
From waterfront to watershed Jul 7, 2007
The ACTU secretary is lean as a whippet, cooks (curries and roasts), enjoys red wine, breeds rare and valuable Gouldian finches ("because they're beautiful"), plays guitar (not half badly, mates say) and reads the British historian Antony Beevor and the Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell. He has two university degrees as well as a diploma in labour law. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
A case of mind over grey matter Jun 1, 2007
Antony Beevor The British historian on his latest book, The Battle for Spain, which offers new insights into the Spanish Civil War ... Antony Beevor The British historian on his latest book, The Battle for Spain, which offers new insights into the Spanish Civil War. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The word warrior Apr 14, 2007
Another coup is securing both the multi-award-winning war historian Antony Beevor, whose new book, The Battle for Spain, gives a re-assessment of the consequences of the Spanish Civil War, and international relations expert Andrew Bacevich, provocateur and stirrer on the subject of what he calls the new American militarism ... Given that Antony Beevor's new book about the Spanish Civil War offers interesting parallels to the war in Iraq; and that Bacevich, who is a Vietnam vet, knows not only... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Passionate program designed to provoke Apr 13, 2007
Other guests include the novelists Andrew O'Hagan, Richard Ford, Lionel Shriver, Andrei Makine and Rachel Seiffert; the non-fiction writers Eliot Weinberger, Andrew Bacevich and Daniel Mendelsohn; the historian Antony Beevor and the historian and travel writer William Dalrymple. The actor, director and writer Richard E. Grant will attend, and there will be film screenings, including the Sydney premiere of Richard Roxburgh's adaptation of Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Authors and critics pick their favourites Feb 27, 2007
Some biographers must be contenders - Jenny Uglow and Claire Tomalin, for instance - and I have never seen a bad review for the historian Antony Beevor. But can't we stake a claim for Vikram Seth. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The hidden passion of a fiery fighter Jan 27, 2007
" Koperberg's home in the lower Blue Mountains village of Faulconbridge, near the Norman Lindsay Gallery, is the antithesis of a man who has spent his working life protecting the Australian bush - an English oasis of clipped lawns and hedges with a fountain out the front, vine-covered gazebo out the back and nary a native plant to be seen. At least the gutters are clear of leaves. The neat interior smacks of a man who demands order and concedes he would have been in the military or police if not... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
