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Antony Beevor

British Historian

Born: Dec 14, 1946

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In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps. Antony Beevor

Books Table Pile Spread Which Working Maps

I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake. Antony Beevor

Too Much Sheep Too Valley See Seeing Rise Could Write Trout Checking Overlooking Where Lake Whether Room Much Used

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous. Antony Beevor

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It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices. Antony Beevor

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The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual. Antony Beevor

History Took Individual Emphasized Because Off Influence Reason

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived. Antony Beevor

It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future. Antony Beevor

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At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre. Antony Beevor

I love 'Blackadder,' but history it certainly ain't. Antony Beevor

Love History Certainly

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