Hitler, half crazed in his bunker, issued wild orders while Stalin was prepared to risk any number of his men to seize the city before the other Allies could get there. Hundreds of thousands of German civilians froze to death or were massacred because Nazi officials had forbidden their evacuation. The result was the most gruesome display of brutality in the war, with tanks crushing refugee columns, mass rapes, pillage, and destruction. He now offers readers a gripping, street-level portrait of the harrowing days of January 1945 in Berlin when the vengeful Red Army and beleaguered Nazi forces clashed for a final time. Most of his titles are published by Penguin.Īntony Beevor is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France.įor more information about Antony Beevor:Īcclaimed for his vivid re-creations of some of the twentieth century's most significant battles, Antony Beevor is one of the best known and respected military historians writing today. Berlin: The Downfall 1945 has dominated the bestseller lists even more than Stalingrad. 1 Bestseller both in hardback and paperback, the UK edition alone selling half a million copies, and has been published around the world in twenty-one translations. His book Stalingrad was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999. 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 has recently stepped down as chairman of the Society of Authors.
In September 2005, as La Guerra Civil Española, it went straight to become the No. His latest book is The Battle for Spain, a completely new edition of his 1982 book on the Spanish Civil War. He was then the editor of A Writer at War - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945, a compilation of the great novelist's wartime notebooks. Stalingrad and Berlin have been translated into twenty-five languages and sold more than two and a half million copies between them. Antony Beevor is the author of Crete - The Battle and the Resistance, which won a Runciman Prize, Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949 (written with his wife Artemis Cooper), Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History, and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, Berlin - The Downfall, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award, and The Mystery of Olga Chekhova.
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