Antony Beevor
Person on 2 sites
British military historian, author of Stalingrad, Berlin and The Second World War.
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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6 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Face of Battle (opens rcmnd.app)
“The very first historian to inspire me was John Keegan, who I studied under at Sandhurst, because he wrote The Face of Battle, which was one of the key moments in the turning points of military history.”
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Life and Fate (opens rcmnd.app)
“These were the notebooks that we worked on in Moscow and one realised that here was most of the raw material for Life and Fate which I think is probably the most important work of fiction about World War II.”
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Hitler (opens rcmnd.app)
“But I don't see Kershaw's work on Hitler really ever being surpassed.”
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The Face of Battle (opens rcmnd.app)