Antony Beevor is the author of Crete - The Battle and the Resistance (April 1991 by John Murray) which won a Runciman Prize, Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949 (written with his wife Artemis Cooper and published in June 1994 by Doubleday), Stalingrad (April 1998 by Viking) which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, Berlin - The Downfall (April 2002 by Viking Penguin), which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award, and The Mystery of Olga Chekhova (May 2004 by Penguin). Stalingrad and Berlin have been translated into twenty-nine languages and sold almost three million copies between them. He was then the editor of A Writer at War - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 (September 2005 by Harvill), a compilation of the great novelist's wartime notebooks. His latest book is The Battle for Spain (June 2006 by Weidenfeld & Nicholson), a completely new edition of his 1982 book on the Spanish Civil War. In September 2005, as La Guerra Civil Espaņola, (published by Critica) it went straight to become the No 1 Bestseller in Spain and won the La Vanguardia prize for non-fiction. He has recently stepped down as chairman of the Society of Authors. He was given an honorary doctorate by Kent University, and is a visiting professor at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.
He is currently working on D-Day - From the Beaches to Paris which will be published in the early summer of 2009 by Viking Penguin.
You can find out more information on Antony Beevor's works by visiting http://www.antonybeevor.com/
Website:
http://www.antonybeevor.com
Bibliography:
Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, John Murray, April 1991 UK, 1992 US
Paris after the Liberation 1944-1949, Doubleday, June 1994 UK / June 1994 US
Stalingrad, Viking, April 1998 UK / July 1998 US
Berlin - The Downfall 1945, Viking Penguin, April 2002 UK / May 2002 US
The Mystery of Olga Chekova, Penguin, May 2004 UK / September 2004 US
A Writer at War, - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 Harvill, September 2005 UK/ Viking 2006 US
The Battle for Spain, Weidenfeld & Nicholson June 2006 UK and US/ (first published as La guerra civil espaņola in Spanish by Critica, September 2005)
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