Quotes About Antony Beevor

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Neither he nor Schmidt seems to have appreciated that speed was the decisive factor. They

Eden was hardly an impartial observer of the conflict. He is supposed to have told the French foreign minister, Delbos, that England preferred a rebel victory to a republican victory. He professed an admiration for the self-proclaimed fascist Calvo Sotelo, who had been murdered.

The United States ambassador, William Bullitt, was so trusted by the French administration that he was temporarily made mayor and asked to negotiate the surrender of the capital to the Germans.

He then 'went off to have a rest', which was often a Soviet euphemism for incapacity through alcohol.

Waffen-SS prisoners were conspicuous by their rarity, either because of their determination to go down fighting, or from being shot on sight by their captors. One

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.

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

You read 'Stalingrad' by Antony Beevor because you're interested in the Second World War or Russia or whatever.