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Sir Antony James Beevor, FRSL (born 14 December 1946) is a British military historian. He has published several popular historical works, mainly on the Second World War , the Spanish Civil War , and most recently the Russian Revolution and Civil War .
Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (also known as The Fall of Berlin 1945 in the US) is a narrative history by Antony Beevor of the Battle of Berlin during World War II. It was published by Viking Press in 2002, then later by Penguin Books in 2003. The book achieved both critical and commercial success.
Anthony, A. (5 June 2022) Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor review – butchery of the Bolsheviks. The Guardian. Beer, D. (15 June 2022) What Antony Beevor gets wrong about Russia. The New Statesman. Kelly, C. (23 May 2022) Russia: Revolution and Civil War by Antony Beevor. The Financial Times.
A Woman in Berlin was published again in English in 2005, with an introduction by Antony Beevor, a prominent British historian who has published on the Battle of Berlin. He has described it as "the most powerful personal account to come out of World War II."
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939 is a 2006 history of the Spanish Civil War written by Antony Beevor and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. It is a revised edition of Beevor's 1982 The Spanish Civil War .
In 2018, military historian Sir Antony Beevor named The 317th Platoon as "the greatest war movie ever made", "followed closely by 1966's The Battle of Algiers". [6]
The Second World War is a 2012 narrative history of World War II by the British historian Antony Beevor. The book starts with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, [1] and covers the entire Second World War. It ends with the final surrender of Axis forces. [2]
He claimed that Beevor used NKVD reports as the source and that they were "not aware of such facts being revised at the Nuremberg tribunal", also accusing Beevor of falling for a "provocation". In response, Beevor called the statement by Oliyinyk untrue and stated that he used anti-Nazi German officer Helmuth Groscurth , who was a witness of ...