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Antony Beevor

Biography

Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. A regular officer in the 11th Hussars, he served in Germany and England. He has published several novels, and his works of nonfiction include THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR; CRETE: The Battle and the Resistance, which won the 1993 Runciman Award; STALINGRAD: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 and BERLIN: The Downfall, 1945. With his wife, Artemis Cooper, he wrote PARIS: After the Liberation: 1944-1949. His book STALINGRAD was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction, the Wolfson History Prize and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999.

Antony Beevor

Books by Antony Beevor

The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
by Antony Beevor - History, Nonfiction

On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, watched the air armada of Dakotas and gliders, carrying the legendary American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and the British 1st Airborne Division. Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept, but could it have ever worked? The cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch who risked everything to help. German reprisals were pitiless and cruel, and lasted until the end of the war. Antony Beevor, using often overlooked sources from Dutch, American, British, Polish and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting.