Author: Antony Beevor

Quotes

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

- Antony Beevor

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

- Antony Beevor

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

- Antony Beevor

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

- Antony Beevor

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