Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

Antony Beevor (b. 1946) is the author of Stalingrad. He studied at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst under renowned military historian John Keegan while training to join the British Army as an officer in the Hussars. He followed a military career until 1970, when he resigned his commission to pursue writing professionally. He published several fiction and nonfiction works before Stalingrad made him a household name in 1998. Beevor’s position as a leading military historian is supported by several other acclaimed works, including Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (2002), D-Day (2002), The Battle for Normandy (2009), and The Second World War (2012). His body of work reflects his approach in Stalingrad: mixing highly human stories gained from interviews or studying personal records with analysis of high-level military strategies and socio-political currents.

Beevor’s contributions to historical literature have earned him numerous honors, including Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in Britain and Chevalier of l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. He was knighted in the UK’s honors list of 2017. He holds honorary doctorates from several British universities and an honorary Fellowship at King’s College London, and he has been a visiting professor at several universities, including the University of Cambridge.