Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. His works of non fiction include The Spanish Civil War, Crete: THe Battle and the Resistance, which won the 1993 Runciman Award, Stalingrad and Berlin: The Downfall 1945. With his wife, Artemis Cooper, he wrote Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949 which is being reissued by Penguin in 2004. Stalingrad was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, the Wolfson History Prize and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999. It became a number-one bestseller both in hardback and paperback, the UK edition alone selling over half a million copies. It has been translated into 24 languages. Berlin: The Downfall 1945 was also a number-one bestseller and sold over 160,000 in hardback in the UK alone.