Publication coincides with 70th anniversary of start of the civil war Sales of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL over two and a half million copies pb of author's SPANISH CIVIL WAR sold 18,000 copies a year 'It is a rare book which cannot be supplemented, and Antony Beevor writes with insight, skill and an admirably pithy style both in narrative and characterisation.' John Keegan in the Sunday Times. 'Bold, clean driving narrative.' The Times Literary Supplement. 'Lucid, expert and even-handed.' The Economist. BBC 'Timewatch' (BBC2) planning documentary. Nine weeks at No 1 in Spanish bestseller lists Awarded 2005 La Vanguardia Prize for Non-Fiction in Spain
Antony Beevor served as a regular officer in the 11th Hussars in Germany. Stalingrad and Berlin: The Downfall have been translated into 25 languages and won a plethora of the major prizes. His latest work, A Writer at War - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945, is an edition, with his Russian researcher, Dr Luba Vinogradova, of Grossman's wartime notebooks. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France, Beevor has been chairman of Society of Authors; he is a visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is married to the writer Artemis Cooper.
he has produced a moving masterpiece of the indictment of war. - THE TLS - Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoFascination lies in the human drama, superbly captured by Beevor... a vivid chronicle of a dreadful time and place. - THE SUNDAY TIMES - Max Hastingshe is also very good on the political manoeuvrings of this most intensely ideological of conflicts. - THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - Andrew Robertsit is an admirably clear-sighted account.... a great achievement. - THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - Miranda Francethe story he tells is grimly familiar but he presents it with a freshness, an eye for detail and a degree of detachment that makes this one of the best accounts to date of the Spanish crisis. - THE EVENING STANDARD - Richard OveryThis is an enthralling bok. The narrative is masterly, wonderfully clear as a guide through the labyrinth. It is even-tempered and full of good sense. - THE LITERARY REVIEW - Allan MassieTo appreciate the magnitude of that rapid and extraordinary achievement, do read Antony Beevor's account of the bubbling cauldron of horror from which Spain escaped. - THE DAILY MAIL - Tom Rosenthalclear prose, peppered with fresh perceptions, especially where strategy, tactics, and soldiers are concerned. - THE TIMES - Paul Preston
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