Antony Beevor Quotes

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it. - Antony Beevor

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff. - Antony Beevor

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make. - Antony Beevor

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle. - Antony Beevor

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely. - Antony Beevor

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have. - Antony Beevor

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that. - Antony Beevor

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime. - Antony Beevor

One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control. - Antony Beevor

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