Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor is the author of Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin the Downfall, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. His next book, an unusual departure, was The Mystery of Olga Chekhova. Crete - The Battle and the Resistance first published in 1991 is still in print in a number of countries. The Battle for Spain, The Spanish Civil War 1939-1936 was a No 1 Bestseller in Spain and received the La Vanguardia Prize. With his Russian colleague Lyuba Vinogradova, he edited Vasily Grossman's wartime notebooks, published as A Writer at War, Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945. D-Day the Battle for Normandy, was a No 1 Bestseller in six countries and received the Prix Henry Malherbe in France and the RUSI Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature. His books have sold over four million copies and have been translated into thirty languages. Antony Beevor is a former chair of the Society of Authors, he is a visiting professor at Birkbeck College London and the University of Kent. He was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and awarded the Cross of the Order of Terra Mariana by Estonia. He is currently working on a history of the Second World War, which will be published in June 2012.