He was educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst and studied under the well-known World War Two historian, John Keegan. Beevor was an officer with the 11th Hussars for five years before becoming a writer. His works have received awards including the Runciman Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History, and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature. The French government made him a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1997, and in 2008 the president of Estonia awarded him the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana. In 1999 Beevor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the 2014 Pritzker Military Museum and Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
I’ve been a fan of Antony Beevor since reading his book on Stalingrad some 20 years ago. I’ve always felt that Beevor has a knack of being able to take the black and white of historical events and splash it with the color of personal accounts. This manner of telling a story not only brings history to life; it makes the history hard to forget. While I do not feel that ARDENNES 1944 is on par with his book on Stalingrad (or the ..
At the outset let me say I am a great fan of Beevor's writing and have enjoyed all of his books. I read Ardennes quickly and was carried through despite the confusion from the welter of divisions and battalions and movements which were very hard to follow. The basis of the Ardennes campaigns from both sides is complex and hard to follow. The detailed research is evident and there are sufficiently interesting issues such as the relationships between the generals ..
