Antony Beevor, Author . Viking $29.95 (490p) ISBN 978-0-670-03041-5
Covering the months from January to May in 1945, as Soviet and other Allied troops advanced to Berlin, freelance British historian Beevor (Stalingrad) opts for direct narrative with overheard quotes from the main players, making the reader an...
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Antony Beevor, Author . Viking $32.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-670-02119-2
Beevor has established a solid reputation as a chronicler of WWII's great eastern front battles: Stalingrad and Berlin. In addressing D-Day, he faces much wider competition with historians like Stephen Ambrose and Max Hastings, who also use his
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Antony Beevor, Author Viking Books $35 (494p) ISBN 978-0-670-87095-0
This gripping account of Germany's notorious campaign combines sophisticated use of previously published firsthand accounts in German and Russian along with newly available Soviet archival sources and caches of letters from the front. For Beevor (Par
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Antony Beevor, Author Viking Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-03340-9
Hitler admired her for her ""cosmopolitan sophistication,"" but Olga Chekhova, niece of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, was far too pragmatic to lose herself to the charms of a powerful man. Drawing on numerous interviews, articles and books,...
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Antony Beevor. Little, Brown, $35 (880p) ISBN 978-0-316-02374-0
Beevor successfully employs the format of his previous works on WWII (Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943) in this comprehensive capstone. His approach presents a kaleidoscope of individual experiences in a context of continuous choices. His...
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Antony Beevor. Viking, $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-670-02531-2
Acclaimed British historian Beevor (The Second World War) uses detailed archival research to tell the story of how scattered and surprised American soldiers fought a series of desperate, isolated battles and turned what could have been the worst...
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Antony Beevor, Author, Artemis Cooper, With Doubleday Books $27.5 (479p) ISBN 978-0-385-47195-4
Early postwar France saw the trials of collaborationist leaders, de Gaulle's reestablishment of the republic and his abrupt resignation in 1946, widespread panic at the prospect of a Communist or right-wing coup and the arrival of Marshall Plan aid,
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Kinta Beevor, Author, Antony Beevor, Author Pantheon Books $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-40462-7
Beevor, who died in 1995, recalls her childhood spent in Tuscany with bohemian British parents in this precious yet strangely distant memoir. Beevor has many interesting tales to tell: her parents, an artist and a writer, moved into a castle in the...
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Antony Beevor. Viking, $35 (496p) ISBN 978-0-525-42982-1
This is destined to be a World War II military history classic. Historian Beevor (Ardennes 1944) draws on archives, memoirs and existing scholarship to produce a top-notch WWII battle history of the Market Garden Operation, giving equal emphasis to...
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Antony Beevor. Viking, $35 (592p) ISBN 978-0-593-49387-8
Czar Nicholas II’s abdication in 1917 created a “sudden vacuum of power” that enabled the Bolshevik takeover of Russia, according to this tart history. Beevor (The Battle of Arnhem) takes a critical view of most of the major players, detailing how...
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