Stalingrad is an extraordinary achievement which transcends its genre -- Vitali Vitaliev * Daily Telegraph on Stalingrad *
Stalingrad was, I thought, as good as it gets. But Berlin is even better. If you ever needed reminding why war is something we should move heaven and earth to avoid, this will do it -- Jeremy Paxman * Guardian on Berlin *
Beevor can be credited with single-handedly transforming the reputation of military history -- David Edgar * Guardian *
His singular ability to make huge historical events accessible to a general audience recalls the golden age of British narrative history, whose giants include Gibbon, Macaulay and Carlyle -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
The style contributes to the account itself, a masterful mixture of narrative finesse and scrupulousness towards the facts. In both categories we are witnessing an author at the height of his art -- Thomas Kielinger * Die Welt *
Seule passion dans sa demarche: celle de la verite -- Eric Roussel in * Le Figaro *
A British historian of great distinction and range, who . . . demonstrates his mastery of his sources -- Gordon Craig, Review of Books * New York *
Antony Beevor is a contemporary Tolstoy who, with his books on history, is creating a literary masterpiece which will stand the test of time. . . [he] proves that history today is one of literature's most vital branches * Dagens Nyheter *
Superb. Beevor combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative technique of a novelist. A tour de force -- Orlando Figes * Sunday Telegraph on Stalingrad *
As readable and as captivating as a Tolstoyan epic drama of the scope of War and Peace. Revealing, profound and thoroughly unputdownable, Stalingrad is an extraordinary achievement which transcends its genre -- Vitali Vitaliev * Daily Telegraph on Stalingrad *
This superb work of narrative history (all of human despair, and also of heroism is there) chilled the marrow of my bones -- Antonia Fraser * Sunday Times on Stalingrad *
Beevor tells the savage, gripping story of the fall of the city with brilliance and a humane attention to the impact of an epic battle on fragile, individual lives -- Helen Dunmore * The Times on Berlin *
Beevor can be credited with single-handedly transforming the reputation of military history -- David Edgar * Guardian *
His singular ability to make huge historical events accessible to a general audience recalls the golden age of British narrative history, whose giants include Gibbon, Macaulay and Carlyle -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
The style contributes to the account itself, a masterful mixture of narrative finesse and scrupulousness towards the facts. In both categories we are witnessing an author at the height of his art -- Thomas Kielinger * Die Welt *
Seule passion dans sa demarche: celle de la verite -- Eric Roussel in * Le Figaro *
A British historian of great distinction and range, who . . . demonstrates his mastery of his sources -- Gordon Craig, Review of Books * New York *
Antony Beevor is a contemporary Tolstoy who, with his books on history, is creating a literary masterpiece which will stand the test of time. . . [he] proves that history today is one of literature's most vital branches * Dagens Nyheter *
Superb. Beevor combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative technique of a novelist. A tour de force -- Orlando Figes * Sunday Telegraph on Stalingrad *
As readable and as captivating as a Tolstoyan epic drama of the scope of War and Peace. Revealing, profound and thoroughly unputdownable, Stalingrad is an extraordinary achievement which transcends its genre -- Vitali Vitaliev * Daily Telegraph on Stalingrad *
This superb work of narrative history (all of human despair, and also of heroism is there) chilled the marrow of my bones -- Antonia Fraser * Sunday Times on Stalingrad *
Stalingrad was, I thought, as good as it gets. But Berlin is even better. If you ever needed reminding why war is something we should move heaven and earth to avoid, this will do it -- Jeremy Paxman * Guardian on Berlin *
Beevor tells the savage, gripping story of the fall of the city with brilliance and a humane attention to the impact of an epic battle on fragile, individual lives -- Helen Dunmore * The Times on Berlin *
