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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 .

His best known works, the bestselling ''Stalingrad'' and ''Berlin - The Downfall 1945'' recount the WWII battles between Russia and Germany. They have been praised for their vivid, compelling style, and the use of newly disclosed documents from Soviet archives.
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His books discuss atrocities committed by both sides, but are especially notable for extensive coverage of the less-studied crimes committed by the Soviet Red Army in occupied German territory, including looting and the rape of several million women.


CRITICISM


''Berlin - The Downfall 1945'' has encountered strong criticism in Russia, where WWII is considered the " Great Patriotic War ." {Link without Title}
The Russian ambassador to the UK denounced the book as "lies" and
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O.A. Rzhevsky, a professor and President of the Russian Association of
WWII Historians, has charged that Beevor is merely resurrecting the
discredited and racist views of neo-Nazi historians, who depicted
Soviet troops as subhuman "Asiatic hordes."
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PUBLISHED WORKS

He has had four novels published:
  • ''Violent Brink'', (first published John Murray, London, 1975 );

  • ''The Faustian Pact'', (Jonathan Cape, London 1983 );

  • ''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:
  • ''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'' (Viking, London, 1998 ); won the first Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson History Prize and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 1999

  • ''Berlin - The Downfall 1945'' (Penguin, London, 2002 ); Published as ''The Fall of Berlin 1945'' in the U.S.

  • ''The Mystery of Olga Chekhova'', ( 2004 ).


The books he has edited include:
  • ''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'', by Robert Cowley (Editor), Antony Beevor and Caleb Carr. ( 2003 )



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