On Wednesday evening, author and historian Antony Beevor described in chilling detail the Battle of the Bulge, the surprise German attack on Dec. 16, 1944, that led to the deaths of some 16,000 ...

Covering the months from January to May in 1945, as Soviet and other Allied troops advanced to Berlin, freelance British historian Beevor (Stalingrad) opts for direct ...

"The frightening thing we learned during the course of World War II," wrote the physicist Isidor Rabi, "was how easy it is to kill people when you turn your mind to it." He was referring specifically ...

LEGALLY SPEAKING, IT was the conference that met in Paris in November 1990, attended by representatives of a reunited Germany and a then fragile Soviet Union, that ended World War II. As to when the ...

Stalingrad was Antony Beevor’s breakthrough book and in many ways his latest, on the German Ardennes offensive of 1944, mirrors it. “It’s been a long-standing ambition [to cover the battle]. It’s a ...

British historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor says he is dumbfounded at a decision by Ukrainian authorities to ban the import of a Russian translation of his award-winning account of a major ...

You would expect someone of Antony Beevor’s calibre; the award-winning, world-renowned military historian, whose books continually grace the best-seller lists, to be an Oxbridge graduate who excelled ...