Antony Beevor





Antony Beevor

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Antony James Beevor is a British historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. He studied under the famous historian of World War II, John Keegan. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars who served in England and Germany for 5 years before resigning his commission. He has published several popular histories on the Second World War and 20th century in general.



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A long silence, but then September has been a crazy month.I arrived in Sydney at the end of August and suffered less jetlag than I expected. It was lovely weatherfor early spring, and I went straight into MTA (maximum tanning angle) by the pool of my hotel in Sydney. Sunshine is

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