It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

His best known works the best-selling Stalingrad and Berlin - The Downfall 1945 recount the World War II battles between the Soviet Union and Germany. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars who served in England and Germany for five years before resigning his commission. O.

He has publiAntony Beevord several popular histories on World War II and the 20th century in general. He is also a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.