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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 61 quotes by Antony Beevor Antony James Beevor, FRSL (born 14 December 1946) is an English historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. He studied under the military historian John Keegan. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars who served in England and Germany for five years before resigning his commission. He has published several popular histories on the Second World War and the 20th century in general. Read full biography of Antony Beevor → 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of... → 0 I can't envisage stopping writing. 0 If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the... → 0 Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our... → 0 When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff. 0 I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time. 0 The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that. 0 The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely. 0 A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems. 0 The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past. 0 The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths. 0 The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences... → 0 When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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