Antony Beevor is the author of Inside the British Army, Crete--The Battle and the Resistance, and several novels.
With his wife, Artemis Cooper, he is coauthor of the critically acclaimed Paris after the Liberation, 1944-1949.
Both Beevor and his wife were subsequently made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French government.
Summary
Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account
of World War II's most harrowing battle. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's
name. In the five month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost, then caught their
Nazi enemy in an astonishing reversal. As never before, Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides
as they fought in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony Beevor has interviewed
survivors and discovered completely new material in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including reports
of prisoner interrogations, desertions, and executions. The battle of Stalingrad was the psychological turning
point of World War II; as Beevor makes clear, it also changed the face of modern warfare. As a story of cruelty,
courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable.