Sir Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. A regular officer, he served in the 11th Hussars and resigned after five years in the Army to write. His books include (1991) Crete – The Battle and the Resistance  (Runciman Prize); (1994) Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949 written with his wife Artemis Cooper; (1998) Stalingrad (the Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize); (2002) Berlin – The Downfall 1945 (Longman History Today Trustees Award); (2006) The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia); (2009) D-Day (the RUSI Westminster Medal and the Prix Henry Malherbe); (2012)The Second World War; (2015) Ardennes 1944 (shortlist Prix Médicis); and in 2018 Arnhem, another international Number 1 Bestseller. His awards include Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in France, Cross of the Order of Terra Mariana in Estonia, and Commandeur de l’Ordre de la Couronne in Belgium. He was knighted in 2017. His work has been translated into thirty-four languages and sold more than eight million copies. He was the 2002-2003 Lees-Knowles Lecturer at Cambridge University. A former chair of the Society of Authors, he has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Kent, Bath, East Anglia and York, as well as a fellowship of King’s College London and is a visiting professor at the University of Kent. He is currently working on a history of the Russian Civil War.

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