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The award-winning military historian Antony Beevor was born in England in December 1946 and
when he was small suffered from a condition called Perthes disease, which makes the hipbone go soft,
with the result that medical treatment, between the ages of four and seven, required that he go on crutches.
These early works gained some critical acceptance and seemed to offer some hope of material
rewards but it was with Beevor's Stalingrad, first published in 1998, which won the first Samuel
Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for
Literature in 1999 that his celebrity as a military historian was firmly established. The British edition, a number one bestseller in both
hardback and paperback, has so far sold over half a million copies. The
book is also published in the United States and will be appearing in
twenty-four foreign editions. Worldwide sales exceed 1.1 million. Berlin – The Downfall 1945, published in 2002, was accompanied by a BBC Timewatch programme on his research into the subject. The book will also be appearing in twenty-four foreign editions. It has already been a No. 1 Bestseller in a number of countries apart from Britain. Antony Beevor was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French government in 1997 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. He was the 2002-2003 Lees-Knowles lecturer at Cambridge. In 2003, he received the first Longman-History Today Trustees’ Award. He is a member of the management committee of the Society of Authors and the London Library. He is also Visiting Professor at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He lives in London with his wife and two children. |
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