Antony Beevor (born on December 14, 1946) is a British historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars, who has published several popular histories on the Second World War. December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... Winchester College is a public school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England. ... Sandhurst is the name of several villages in the UK, the most famous being the one in Berkshire near Camberley. ... Polish Hussar Hussar (original Hungarian spelling: huszár, plural huszárok) refers to a number of types of cavalry used throughout Europe since the 15th century. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

He is a Visiting Professor at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is descended from a long line of women writers, being a son of Carinthia "Kinta" Beevor (1911- August 1995), herself the daughter of Lina Wakefield, and a descendant of Lucie Duff-Gordon (author of a travelogue on Egypt). Kinta Beevor wrote A Tuscan Childhood. Antony Beevor is married to Hon. Artemis Cooper, granddaughter of Lady Diana Cooper. A professor is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... History Forums - History is Happening -Discuss all historical topics, as well as current events, in an academic setting. ... Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ... Importance and applicability Archaeology is the study of human nature and attempts to illuminate the question of what it means to be human. ... Birkbeck Birkbeck (sometimes still called Birkbeck College) is a College of the University of London. ... Senate House, designed by Charles Holden home to the universitys central administration offices and its library The University of London is a federation of colleges which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ... 1911 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon (1821 - 1869) was an English author and writer. ... Lady Diana Manners (1890 - 1981), later Lady Diana Cooper and then Diana, Viscountess Norwich, was the youngest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, but was widely supposed to be the illegitimate daughter of Henry Cust. ...

Published works

He has had four novels published:

• Violent Brink, (first published John Murray, London, 1975);
• The Faustian Pact, (Jonathan Cape, London1983);
• For Reasons of State, (Jonathan Cape London, 1980);
• The enchantment of Christina von Retzen (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1989).

His works of published non-fiction include: 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• The Spanish Civil War (first published Orbis, London, 1982);
• Inside the British Army (Chatto Windus, London, 1990);
• Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (John Murray, London,1991);
• Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949, co-authored with his wife, (1994);
• Stalingrad, co-authored with his wife, (Viking, London, 1998); , won the first Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 1999
• Berlin - The Downfall 1945, (2002);
• The Mystery of Olga Chekhova, (2004).

The books he has edited include: 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman.

He has also been contributed to several other books including:

• The British Army, Manpower and Society into the Twenty-First Century, ed by Hew Strachan
• What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been more books like this, by Robert Cowley (Editor), Antony Beevor and Caleb Carr. (2003)

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External links

• Official website with a list of his published books and some extracts.
• Biography of Antony Beevor
• Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives: Beevor, Antony (b 1946)
• Antony Beevor Stalingrad Berlin - The Downfall 1945